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“Are you happy? he once asked Jude (they must have been drunk).

I don't think happiness is for me, Jude had said at last, as if Willem had been offering him a dish he didn't want to eat.

But it's for you, Willem.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Our bodies heal without permission, but our hearts need consent. Give it.”
― Lauren Eden, The Lioness Awakens: Poems

“i knew everything about who
i wanted you to be​ and nothing about who you really were”
― Michaela Angemeer, You'll Come Back to Yourself

“none of us are children long enough to love it”
― Ocean Vuong, Time is a Mother