njumpty

“I wanted to know whether you could ever fully know someone. If knowing how they were—how they moved and spoke and the faces they made and the things they tried not to look at—amounted to knowing them. Or if knowing things about them—where they’d been born, all the people they’d been, who they’d loved, the worlds they’d come from—added up to anything.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Complete Stories and Poems

“I could die here, I thought. In the nicest sense. I could’ve died here, and it would’ve been the best I’d felt in ages. Not high and euphoric like when I got offered that job, but a true, simple, sober easiness, even sitting amid the refuse of my reality. A contentedness in simply being.”
― c.m. mckenna, Badger