Alex

“Over the last few years it’s been brought home to him that the boundaries between morals, manners and etiquette, which have always seemed crystal-clear to him, may not look the same to everyone else. He hears talk about the immorality of young people nowadays, but it seems to him that Alyssa and Ben and their friends spend plenty of their time concentrating on right and wrong. The thing is that many of their most passionate moral stances, as far as Cal can see, have to do with what words you should and shouldn’t use for people, based on what problems they have, what race they are, or who they like to sleep with. While Cal agrees that you should call people whatever they prefer to be called, he considers this to be a question of basic manners, not of morals.”
― Tana French, The Searcher

“I realize your default energy level is Cardboard Cutout, but I can’t get to know you if you don’t speak.”
― Christina Lauren, The Soulmate Equation

“her outside matched her inside, she would look like a Picasso sculpture: head sideways, nose where her eyes should be, eyes on her chin.”
― Christina Lauren, The Soulmate Equation

“I haven’t been home in years, but I feel that way with you.”
― Christina Lauren, The Soulmate Equation