Sofia Aguiar

“English, which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear, has no words for the shiver and the headache. . . . The merest schoolgirl, when she falls in love, has Shakespeare or Keats to speak her mind for her; but let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry.’ And we’re such language-based creatures that to some extent we cannot know what we cannot name. And so we assume it isn’t real. We refer to it with catch-all terms, like crazy”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“People always talk like there’s a bright line between imagination and memory, but there isn’t, at least not for me. I remember what I’ve imagined and imagine what I remember”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“The problem isn't so much in the time one spends alone, but in how one feels about that aloneness”
― Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

“I am only alone when I think I am”
― Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness