Ari

“If I love you, is that any of your business?”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I don't think she ever knew that a deep-brooding love hung over everything she touched.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

“Much that we had appreciated about one another had been left unsaid. In humor, in life and in love, we had understood.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

“When I saw you after my dream, it was impossible to go through with anything I'd resolved. You were chilly again, as though you'd intercepted my dream and were so horrified that you thought it best to put distance between us. I wonder if in the universe of sleep, dreams don't fly out and rat on one another's dreamers and hold cloak-and-dagger meetings in the side alleys of our nights where they slip coded messages, which is perhaps exactly what we want them to do for us when we lack the courage to speak for ourselves. Dreams inflect our face, our smile, and on our voice lingers the timbre of desire we weren't willing to hide while dreaming. I wished you'd taken a second look at me and said, You dreamt of me last night, didn't you?”
― André Aciman, Enigma Variations