Drea Cali

“Seeing your past - or a person from your - can for me at least be physically painful. I'm overwhelmed by a melancholic ache - and I want the past back, not matter the cost. It doesn't matter that it won't come back; that it never even actually existed as I remember it - I want it back. I want things to be like they were, or like I remember them having been: Whole. But she doesn't remind me of the past, for some reason, she feels present tense”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Love is not a tragedy or a failure, but a gift. You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person, and why.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“I can't take things day by day when I'm too horrified by the thought of tomorrow. I’m underwater.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel