Lynne

“I know at that moment what he's given me and it isn't a chair. It's an invitation, a welcome, the knowledge that I am accepted here. He hasn't given me a place to sit. He's given me a place to belong.”
― Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

“I wished my mother was here tonight, which is stupid, because it’s an impossible wish.” He shrugs and turns to me, drowning the smile that cracks me every time.
“It’s not stupid to want to see her again.”
“It wasn’t so much that I wanted to see her again,” he says, looking at me with the depth of more than seventeen years in his eyes. “I wanted her to see you.”
― Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

“Humans waste words. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot. Everyone knows the peels are the best part.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“There are so many things that can break you if there's nothing to hold you together.”
― Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility