Birgit

“The day I realized Fonny was in love with me was strange. It was the day he gave mama that sculpture. I dumped water over Fonny’s head and scrubbed Fonny's back in the bathtub in a time that seems so long ago. I don’t remember that we ever had any curiosity concerning each other's bodies. Fonny loved me too much. And that meant that there had never been any occasion for shame between us. We were a part of each other. Flesh of each other's flesh which we so took for granted that we never thought of the flesh. And yet, it was no surprise to me when I finally understood that he was the most beautiful person I had seen in all my life.”
― If Beale Street Could Talk

“True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.”
― Antoine De Saint-Exupery

“I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!”
― Ingrid Bergman

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde