Avery Silverberg

“My pain was never more valuable than his potential.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name

“But, she knew, you didn’t have to marry your soulmate, and you didn’t even have to marry an Interesting. You didn’t always need to be the dazzler, the firecracker, the one who cracked everyone up, or made everyone want to sleep with you, or be the one who wrote and starred in the play that got the standing ovation. You could cease to be obsessed with the idea of being interesting.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings

“There was a time when I thought getting older meant you'd understand more about the world. But it turns out the exact opposite is true. I don't know anything about anything, let alone why Jun had to lead the life he lived, why he had to die the way he died.”
― Randy Ribay, Patron Saints of Nothing

“And sometimes focusing on what you can control is the only way to lessen the pang in your chest when you think about the things you can't.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High