do all lovers feel they're inventing something?

• héloïse, portrait of a lady on fire, 2020

if someone hits you and tells you they are doing it because they love you, they are a liar.

• shibata nobuyo, shoplifters, 2018

i think there are people that help you become the person that you end up being, and you can be grateful for them even if they were never meant to be in your life forever.

• diane nguyen, bojack horseman, 2020

we're good at drawing lines through the spaces between stars. like, we're pattern-finders, and we'll find patterns. and we, like, really put our hearts and minds into it, and even if we don't mean to. so i believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people who do.

• angus, night in the woods, 2017

i think ... that if you love someone, you don't get to choose how they love you back.

• hoa, the stone sky, 2017

i want flowers from cephalus and diamonds from neptune, and i want to scorch the thousand earths between us to see what blooms from the ash, so we can discover it hand in hand, content in context, intelligible only to each other. i want to meet you in every place i have loved.

• blue, this is how you lose the time war, 2019