"We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!" 

― Andre Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

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"But what he hadn't expected was that when everyone feared him and flattered him, Lan WangJi scolded him right in his face; when everyone spurned him and loathed him, Lan WangJi stood by his side." 

-Mo Xiang Tong Xiu, The Untamed: Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation
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"Scott Favor : I only have sex with a guy for money.
Mike Waters : Yeah, I know.
Scott Favor : And two guys can't love each other.
Mike Waters : Yeah.
Mike Waters : Well, I don't know. I mean... I mean, for me, I could love someone even if I, you know, wasn't paid for it... I love you, and... you don't pay me.
Scott Favor : Mike...
Mike Waters : I really wanna kiss you, man... Well goodnight, man... I love you though... You know that... I do love you."
-River Phoenix & Keanu Reeves, My Private Idaho