Jesse Osborne

“Maybe. But in my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love.’ Like falling in love. Do the young still fall in love, or is that mechanism obsolete by now, unnecessary, quaint, like steam locomotion? He is out of touch, out of date. Falling in love could have fallen out of fashion and come back again half a dozen times, for all he knows.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace

“She would have been a better fuck in Greece, maybe. America was a shitty place to fuck.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“I was staring at you and you were staring at me and right then it was sort of like love, wasn't it?”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“I don't want to be a sweetheart. I want to be the fucking love of your life," Curt said with a force that startled her.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah