Amanda

“I like the look of a collaged girl, a girl with mismatched limbs and words written on her body, glitter nail polish painted over her pores. She’s unnatural and a little disturbing, sure, but she’s sparkling, and she’s with her sisters.”
― Emmeline Clein, Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm

“Ever since he was young, she had showed Shuichi that there was always a way to love people.”
― Laura Imai Messina, The Heartbeat Library

“This hurts too much to touch with words.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“When you're young you believe that love is infatuation, but infatuation is simple, any child can become infatuated, fall in love. But real love? Love is a job for an adult. Love demands a whole person, all the best of you, all the worst. It has nothing to do with romance, because the hard part of a marriage isn't that I have to live seeing all your faults, but that you have to live with me seeing them. That I know everything about you now. Most people aren't brave enough to live without secrets. Everyone dreams about being invisible sometimes, no one dreams of being transparent.

Marriage? There ought to be a different word for it after a while. Because there's no such thing as 'eternal infatuation,' only love lasts that long, and it's never simple. It requires a whole person, everything you have. The whole lot.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners