April Rodea

“I realize then that it's not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

“Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

“Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild