— Kristen Costello
“Some nights I need to be held. Tonight I’m a listener. So nice to lie in rumpled sheets and listen. Cover me with words.”— Don DeLillo, Libra
“He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.”
—John Updike
I don’t think smut scenes are supposed to make you cry but clearly Rainbow Rowell didn’t get the memo because “If I want him warm, I have to do it myself” and “I can see him, even when I cant, even with my eyes closed- I know him too well” and “Is this was people do? Get as close as they can and then push closer? Burn each other into every gap? And then what? Then just tomorrow and more?” and “Just kiss me for the sake of kissing me” and “I want my sheets to smell like you” and “Be gentle with me…even though you don’t have to” and “Don’t say please. Why not? Because you don’t have to. I’ll give you whatever you want” and “I couldn’t break him if I tried. I won’t try” and “Is this what he wants? Is this what I’m allowed to take?” and “I was never magic” and “Is this magic? Is this enough?” And now I’m sobbing.
It’s easy to forget, but pay attention to all the beauty around you and remember: you are part of this universe.