Robin

“Lust is a universal language.”
― Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me

“A name, she thinks, is what makes a person who they are. A name is how they know themself.”
― Nicola Griffith, Spear

“He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor—by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world.”
― Susanna Lee, Detectives in the Shadows: A Hard-Boiled History

“What the doctors didn’t tell me was how much I would change while watching her suffer. I shouldn’t be so surprised, though. Each thing we love takes a little piece of us whether we give it willingly or not. By the time we find the person we were meant to be with, we’re a honeycombed shell of what we once were. Each person we love turns us into the strange thing we become.”
― Eric LaRocca, The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories