meila

“But sometimes a kiss is not a kiss is not a kiss. Sometimes it's poetry.”
― Julie Buxbaum, Tell Me Three Things

“SN: you know what I think about sometimes?

Me: What?

SN: you know that piece of hair that always falls into your eyes—the not-quite-a-bang piece? I want to be able to tuck it behind your ear. I want to be able to do that. I want to meet you when I feel comfortable enough with you to do that.

Me: You are so weird.

SN: you are not the first person to say that.

Me: Am I the first to say that I really like that about you?”
― Julie Buxbaum, Tell Me Three Things

“There's no you of today without everything in your past. There's no you of tomorrow without everything you're going through now, either.”
― Neil Pasricha, You Are Awesome: How to Navigate Change, Wrestle with Failure, and Live an Intentional Life

“It was as simple as that. Once he had yearned for choice. then, when he had had a choice, he had made the wrong one: the choice to leave. And now he was starving.
But if he had stayed...
His thoughts continued. If he had stayed, he would have starved in other ways. He would have lived a life hungry for feelings, for color, for love.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver