Lily

“You know the feeling when you're falling? When you take a step onto what used to be sold ground and suddenly it just falls out from under you? You start to spiral slowly, gathering speed until you know that you are within seconds from hitting the ground, and you're praying that you'll hit, that everything will just disappear, that everything you've been fighting to escape will just consume you and everything will be over. But then the ground doesn't come and you just keep falling and falling and falling, trapped in a nightmare that will never end.”
― B.C. Hedlund, Consigned to Oblivion

“My foot slipped. A split second. And for that split second, I was falling.

In that split second, I didn't panic.

I thought, 'oh'.

Then Rachel's hand wrapped around my arm and steadied me.

'Thanks,' I stared at the edge . . .

Two seconds ago all I could think was, 'oh, thank god, now it's over.”
― B.C. Hedlund, Consigned to Oblivion

“And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places