Kyle

“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.”
― Werner Herzog

“Alicia's eyes? Brown. Gabrielle's? Gabrielle I don't remember. Eye color it's not really that important green blue brown it's more the way the gaze affects you. Lebrun for example his eyes they bored into you when he turned your way when he trained them on you but the thing is when people think they're seeing into you at the same time they're leaving themselves open that's what I discovered just when they think they're learning everything there is to know about you is the time when their own souls are the most revealed it's a two-way street.”
― Thomas Rayfiel, In Pinelight