Maya

“if it weren’t all so beautiful, if every tiny thing weren’t so relentlessly fucking beautiful, perhaps I’d be the one with the paperclip, but instead I’ll wander through it alone, blessed with every friend there is.”
― Ben Reeves, Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

“They're the wrong colors, right? Somebody else's rainbow.”
― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway

“I’m erased. I’m gone. I’m nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like water into an empty bowl…. And… I see. I hear. But not with eyes and ears. I’m not outside my world anymore, and I’m not really inside it either. The thing is, there’s no difference between me and the universe. The boundary is gone. I am it and it is me. I am a stone, a cactus thorn. I am rain. I like that most of all, being rain.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby