Jess

“It feels like an unzipping of his skin, as if he's stepping outside this costume version of himself to become his actual self - that he's discovering something true buried so deep he thought he would never reach that person, but there he is, and Dev is with him, holding his hand, guiding him through.
In the middle of the night, he wakes up reaching out for Dev, but he's already there, arms wrapped up tight around Charlie. "I would choose you," Charlie whispers into the darkness.”
― Alison Cochrun, The Charm Offensive

“You're allowed to want the romance parts without the sex parts. Or the sex parts without the romance parts. All of those feelings are valid. You're deserving of a relationship in whatever form you want it.”
― Alison Cochrun, The Charm Offensive

“He's like a terrified baby bird. Like a two-hundred -twenty-pound baby bird with crippling anxiety and a fairly intense germ phobia who can't navigate his way through a complete sentence.”
― Alison Cochrun, The Charm Offensive

“Every cell in my body has died and grown again.”
― N.D. Stevenson, The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures