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“Then there is also this: How do you give up something that’s nestled in your marrow, this particular taste in loving, one that is crisscrossed with hate, with specks of long-ago humiliations endured but never forgotten? What I’m referring to is an appetite for a certain degree of debasement, being reduced to a panting, abject creature in the name of sexual pleasure. The fine-tuning of relative power that naturally obtains between couples pitched way up into the insistent blare of one who dominates and one who submits.”
― Daphne Merkin, 22 Minutes of Unconditional Love

“To listen to what life sometimes murmurs into your ear, heart, or gut.”
― Sofía Segovia, The Murmur of Bees

“Never underestimate the big importance of small things”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Humans need community, for our emotional health. We need connection, a sense of belonging. We are not built to thrive in isolation”
― Ann Napolitano, Dear Edward