Katie

“Whenever I do something really embarrassing. for days after the incident I live in a state of utter mortification. At night I close my eyes and my brain will yank me back to the deep well of my shame, projecting cringeworthy scenes in excruciating detail against my eyelids.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

“To him it feels like an adventure. This. Them. Waking up every morning wondering if he'll survive his feelings for her. Seems unlikely, and yet. He always makes it to the night.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Mate

“The most recent post was from yesterday —Christmas— and it was of the foosball table Shane had given him. No caption. He scrolled and found a photo of the exercise ball Shane had been balancing on in Ilya's gym. One of the latest puzzle Ilya had completed with Shane's dad. One of Ilya's loon tattoo.
One of the two plastic heart rings, together on Shane's dresser.
Shane realized that most or Ilya's posts were, in weird cryptic ways, about Shane. His entire account was like a secret diary of their relationship, full of inside jokes and little references that only Shane would understand.
And Shane hadn't even bothered to look at it before. Not really.
He looked now. He scrolled until his eyes were so blurry that he had to give up and sob into his hands instead. How could Shane have doubted for a second how fiercely Ilya loved him?”
― Rachel Reid, The Long Game

“Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs in the past.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection