Alysa Weldy

“And the flavor of Pippa's kiss--bittersweet and strange--stayed with me all the way back uptown, swaying and sleepy as I sailed home on the bus, melting with sorrow and loveliness, a starry ache that lifted me up above the windswept city like a kite: my head in the rainclouds, my heart in the sky.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“as if this country can find no better use for its children than to catch bullets in some Russian field.”
― Olivia Hawker, The Ragged Edge of Night

“Life, her mother had once told her, was about decisions, decisions made in moments of great turmoil, and it was these decisions that defined us.”
― Eoin Dempsey, The Bogside Boys

“Problems never stop; they merely get exchanged and/or upgraded. Happiness”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life