Katie

“And it was easier to let him keep on touching me than ask him to stop, easier to let him inside than to push him away, easier than hearing him ask me, "Why not?" It was easier to keep quiet and take it than to give him an answer.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“He looks tired, like someone walked on his skin and left footprints.”
― Jennifer Egan

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray