Here's the life I've always longed for

Dog Thoughts by Anna Haifisch

"Why can't we kiss Kim?"
"Because the thing about desire is that it's stronger when it's not totally satisfied."

Justin Keenan, narrative designer for Disco Elysium

And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Bogdan's mother had died when he was nineteen. She had come into some money when Bogdan's father had died. From somewhere, it hadn't been a time for details. The money paid for Bogdan to take up a place at the Technical University in Krakow, to study engineering. And that's where he had been when his mother suffered a stroke and collapsed at home. If he had still been at home then he would have saved her, but he wasn't, and so he didn't.

Bogdan came home, buried his mother and left for England the next day. Nearly twenty years later he is looking at a stupid lawn.

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman p. 74