Spilled-Matcha

“I love bright red drinks, don’t you? They taste twice as good as any other color.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another?”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“One of the more excruciating emotional disconnects for me is when someone says something they think is poignant and I receive it as complete bullshit.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died