maya

“In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I’m not.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people,” I say. “Maybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time.” Hauling them in as we make choices, good and bad, as we screw up, step up, lose our minds, find our minds, fall apart, fall in love, as we grieve, grow, retreat from the world, dive into the world, as we make things, as we break things.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Day will move on and live his life. So will I. We will be okay. Someday, perhaps in the far and distant future, we'll find each other again.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“I see pieces of memories in his eyes. Pieces of us. They are broken, and scattered, but they are there, gradually coming together again at the sight of me.”
― Marie Lu, Champion