Ari

“There's no 'we'," Della said. "There's you and there's me. I'll work with you on the case, but I don't trust you."
He exhaled. "Then I guess I'll have to win your trust back."
She rolled her eyes. "I'm not your concern."
"You will always be my concern," he said softly. "We all need someone, Della. That doesn't mean you aren't strong.”
― C.C. Hunter, Unspoken

“Neither of us was quite sure what the other meant, but, as in dreams, our words could be taken in so many ways, which was fine too, because we liked thinking they had more than one meaning, one obvious, one not so obvious, one hinted at but so muddled that neither of us knew which to grasp, because each was so laced into the others that all three ultimately meant one and the same thing.”
― André Aciman, Enigma Variations

“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

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