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“She peels an orange, separates it in perfect halves, and gives one of them to me. If I could wear it like a friendship bracelet, I would. Instead I swallow it section by section and tell myself it means even more this way. To chew and to swallow in silence here with her. To taste the same thing in the same moment.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“If not later, when?�� My father liked it. “If not later, when?�� It echoed Rabbi Hillel’s famous injunction, “If not now, when?”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“But I don’t believe that the future gives us signs. I think that we look back and read the past with the present in our eyes.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue