If We Were Villains: A Novel

I was seized by the strange unfounded idea that she was debating whether or not to say I love you. But the difference between us was that she assumed people just knew those sorts of things, while I was always worried that they didn’

Things without all remedy / Should be without regard: What’s done is done.

Per aspera ad astra. I’d heard a variety of translations, but the one I liked best was Through the thorns, to the stars.