Victoria

“I think all the good parts of us are connected on some level. The part that shares the last double chocolate chip cookie or donates to charity or gives a dollar to a street musician or becomes a candy striper or cries at Apple commercials or says I love you or I forgive you. I think that’s God. God is the connection of the very best parts of us.” “And you think that connection has a consciousness?” she asks. “Yeah, and we call it God.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“wasted so much time living in fear that I thought I was comfortable, but I was writhing in a cage that I didn’t know existed, making lists of all my worries with no intent to do anything about them.”
― Joya Goffney, Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry

“I like watching the sunrise, knowing I made it through one more day.”
― Jennifer Salvato Doktorski, August and Everything After

“Loss does that, hits you out of the blue. You can be in the car or in class or at the movies, laughing and having a good time, and suddenly it’s as if someone has reached directly into the wound and squeezed with all their might.”
― Jennifer Niven, Holding Up the Universe