Megan Kaloukian

“Inside every person is an inherent capability to make it through any kind of difficulty. Everyone has that energy. But sometimes when that energy flows via our anxiety valve, the flow can be restricted. The greater that anxiety, the greater the strength needed to open the valve and release the energy.
That strength is empowered by hope. You could say that hope is the power to believe in the future."

- Before Your Memory Fades (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #3), p. 242”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before Your Memory Fades

“It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Have you been judging my commas all this time, in emails and stuff?” “No,” I said, but he looked away, wounded. Of course I’d judged his commas; his commas were like gnats that crawled onto the screen and settled in random corners of his sentences.”
― Holly Brickley, Deep Cuts

“Why does that obstinate little voice in our heads torment us so? Could it be because it reminds us that we are alive, of our mortality, of our individual souls – which, after all, we are too afraid to surrender but yet make us feel more miserable than any other thing? It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from the world, that no one and no thing hurts along with one’s burned tongues and skinned knees, that one’s aches and pains are all one’s own. Even more terrible, as we grow older, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us. Our own selves make us most unhappy, and that’s why we’re so anxious to lose them, don’t you think?”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History