Lightyear

“You can ask me why I need you, but I don’t know. I just know that I do … I miss you, Eleanor. I want to be with you all the time. You’re the smartest girl I’ve ever met, and the funniest, and everything you do surprises me. And I wish I could say that those are the
reasons I like you, because that would make me sound like a really evolved human being … But I think it’s got as much to do with your hair being red and your hands being soft … and the fact that you smell like homemade birthday
cake.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“It’s something that never comes off, no matter how much you might want it to.”
“You’re comparing love to a…stain?”
He leans so far back in his seat that the front legs of his chair scrape off the floor. He looks very satisfied, with the crepe or with himself, I’m not sure. “Exactly.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

“I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“The heart is resilient and forgiving, it is the mind that causes us stress.”
― Alexandra Elle, Words from a Wanderer