C.L. Lynch

“But while women had more rights these days, I feel like they never actually gained any more respect. The boys around me still used the word ‘girl’ as an insult. They called girls who slept with them sluts, but girls who didn't were prudes, and they didn’t even bother to show girls basic courtesy anymore when they were courting them. They didn’t pull out chairs for their girlfriends or take off their hats or stand when they went in or out of a room. My father — my real father — raised me to do those things to show a woman respect, and my father had always had a tremendous amount of respect for women. Maybe there were new ways, more modern ways, to show respect to a woman. But if so, I didn’t know what they were”
― C.L. Lynch, History

“Love can’t be proven. You can spend your life looking for proof that people love you, but you’re going to find it thin on the ground. Some people will say they love you when clearly they don’t give a crap about you. Other people will swear they don’t care but would cross a mountain for you. The only thing you have to go by is a person’s actions. Do they act like they love you? Or do they act like they don’t?”
― C.L. Lynch, Chemistry