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“I saw Eternity the other night,
Like a great ring of pure and endless light,
All calm, as it was bright,
And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years,
Driven by the spheres,
Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world
And all her train were hurled.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Ring of Endless Light

“And the thought of that makes me want to open a vein, experience pain, know I'm alive, despite this living death.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Impulse

“Sometimes,
you don't wake up.
But if you happen
to, you know things
will never be
the same.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Impulse

“Pray you could somehow stop the uncertainty, somehow stop the loathing, somehow stop the pain...”
― Ellen Hopkins, Impulse

“Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment. I wasn't ready for that moment to end.”
― Ellen Hopkins

“A great ring of pure & endless light
Dazzles the darkness in my heart
And breaks apart the dusky clouds of night.
The end of all is hinted in the start.

When we are born we bear the seeds of blight;
Around us life & death are torn apart,
Yet a great ring of pure and endless light
Dazzles the darkness in my heart.

It lights the world to my delight.
Infinity is present in each part.
A loving smile contains all art.
The motes of starlight spark & dart.
A grain of sand holds power & might.
Infinity is present in each part,
And a great ring of pure and endless light
Dazzles the darkness in my heart.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Ring of Endless Light

“I’ve made myself vulnerable
I’ve let myself care.
I’ve opened my firmly closed heart.
My safety is gone
It’s no longer there
My protection is falling apart.

Nobody promised
Our hearts would be safe
Or our bodies protected from harm.
A moment can change
All we think that we have,
Hope will endure through the storm.

Troubling a Star
Madeleine L’Engle”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Troubling a Star

“You know when you cut yourself really badly, it doesn't hurt for a while. You don't feel anything. Death- our reaction to death- is sort of like that. You don't feel anything at all. And then, later on, you begin to hurt.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Ring of Endless Light

“Because I drink coffee like a real New Yorker and you drink tea like the American Revolution never happened.”
― Emma Lord, When You Get the Chance

“War had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“When we say we want to freeze time, what we mean is that we want to control our memories. We want to choose which moments we’ll keep forever. We want to guarantee the best ones won’t slip away from us somehow. So when something beautiful happens, there’s this impulse to press pause and save the game. We want to make sure we can find our way back to that moment.”
― Becky Albertalli, Love, Creekwood

“We Family. They ain't all about blood you know. Family is people looking out after each other not hiding behind secrets.”
― Susan Crandall, Whistling Past the Graveyard

“When does the mastery end? How many things do I need to be good at to feel good about myself? Could Dan Brown really teach me how to write a thriller as well as he does? Do I even want to try? Or has the access to geniuses of various types simply made us feel bad that we aren't enough just being interested in what we're interested in and accomplishing the less-than-genius-level things we already accomplish? Do I need to be good at more things or simply find more enjoyment in what I'm already pretty good at?”
― Lauren Graham, Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember

“The me that looked my “best” was a me that smoked, was underfed, ran high with anxiety, didn’t get enough sleep, and still never felt good enough. And gradually, whatever that machine was and whatever adrenaline was fueling it began to break down, and I just couldn’t do it anymore. Sometimes when I hear someone say something about how a person “let herself go,” I wonder if she just got tired of the pressure and wanted a break, and instead of passively letting herself go, began to actively choose to leave herself alone.”
― Lauren Graham, Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember

“Knowing the difference between what matters and what doesn’t is a huge thing.”
― Lauren Graham, Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember

“Sometimes, mercifully, without our even asking it to, memory holds hands with fact and helps dull its edges during times when reality is too overwhelming to fully take in a joyous moment, like the birth of a child, or in a darker one, when pain is too great to comprehend, like the loss of a loved one.”
― Lauren Graham, Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don't Want to Forget to Remember

“My grandmother used to say the only way she knew she wasn’t 18 anymore was when she looked in the mirror, and that makes sense to me now.”
― Lauren Graham, Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember

“It’s very useful to always have a friend who is much older and one who is much younger. The older friend will remind you what there is to look forward to and the younger friend will keep you telling your stories over again so you’ll remember not to forget them.”
― Lauren Graham, Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember

“I only wondered and worried about how long it was going to take. “Someday” doesn’t like to tell you when it plans to arrive.”
― Lauren Graham, Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don't Want to Forget to Remember

“Sometimes we polish an experience to make facts line up more closely with feelings or exaggerate moments to make a better dinner party tale. And sometimes, mercifully, details become blurry over time, maybe because the sharp reality is too painful to carry.”
― Lauren Graham, Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don't Want to Forget to Remember

“May darling, tell this silly woman love doesn't come calling very often, and when it does you don't rationalise it; you don't put rules on it, and you don't make excuses, you just go with the flow,' he said.
'What he said.' May said in a mock serious voice.”
― Ann O'Loughlin, A Letter from Ireland

“Don't go there, Sean. Not on a Sunday. There's no point making waves,” Crabbie said. He was as impatient as I was but maybe he was right. We drove back to the station. I poured myself a Johnnie Walker which was the general libation used to liven up the office tea. Johnnie Walker in the tea, Jim Beam in the coffee.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground

“Whenever Miss Fury races toward someone, she's taking down a bad guy, but my racing always has somthing to do with love.”
― Deb Caletti, True Life in Uncanny Valley

“Let's just see," she says, because seeing can change everything.”
― Deb Caletti, True Life in Uncanny Valley

“You can't escape history, Arden Lee says. History is who we've been and who we'll keep being until we do something different.”
― Deb Caletti, True Life in Uncanny Valley

“I've always believed that everyone who reads a book leaves part of themselves in it, adding their experiences to the whole. The story plus the readers- it's humanity, the ones that want to respect and understand other people.”
― Deb Caletti, True Life in Uncanny Valley

“Guilt crashes down. Happy can be an accusation when someone else isn't.”
― Deb Caletti, True Life in Uncanny Valley

“Who knew that a place could make you feel like a totally different person. The freedom, the openness, and the sexiness, yeah. But, also, the glorious sense of just belonging to yourself.”
― Deb Caletti, True Life in Uncanny Valley

“In these types of movies, humanity is never the winner.”
― Deb Caletti, True Life in Uncanny Valley

“I wonder, you know, how many rebellious brats are really just kids speaking the truth, truth that no one has dared to say before.”
― Deb Caletti, True Life in Uncanny Valley