❝ It is difficult—it is very difficult, to befriend where you wish to consume, to find those who, when they ask Do I have you still, when they end a letter with Yours, mean it in any substantive way. ❞

• Blue, This Is How You Lose the Time War

❝ A picture is a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone. ❞

❝ Just leave your passion as a hobby. That's something an adult would say, I think. ❞

• Masako Saeki, Blue Period

❝ I have tried to dismantle you, Gideon Nav! The Ninth House poisoned you, we trod you underfoot—I took you to this killing field as my slave—you refuse to die, and you pity me! Strike me down. You've won. I've lived my whole life at your mercy, yours alone, and God knows I deserve to die at your hand. You are my only friend. I am undone without you. ❞

• Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Gideon the Ninth

❝ And when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. What do you call it, freedom or loneliness? ❞

• Kundera M., The Unbearable Lightness of Being