Jenna

“You don’t have to make the world perfect just so people will love you,”
― Alexene Farol Follmuth, My Mechanical Romance

“There’s the faintest glow from the streetlight outside on her hair, and she smells like sawdust and strawberry lip balm and for a second, I really don’t care what happens next. I start to understand why I got so pissed when Dash asked her to homecoming, and why I was so upset when she didn’t ask for my help with our Regionals bot, and why I sprint out of practice every day just to stand next to her and poke around at wires. I get why I asked her to come to a kids’ soccer game with me and why I bought her that silly little drawer knob in the shape of a bird. I get why it matters to me that she’s hurting.
Because I think about her all the time. Because she surprises me, because she makes me laugh, and because this, whatever it is with her, is the only thing I ever do that’s easy.
Because wherever I am, I want her close by.”
― Alexene Farol Follmuth, My Mechanical Romance

“The bad stuff will be there ... If we want to fight it, we have to find joy where we can. We have to find beauty. We have to take our moments to be happy. Because the joy is what keeps us strong and reminds us we have something to fight for.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“So I’m doing it for you because that’s how people should behave; they should fill in each other’s gaps.”
― Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown