Brittany

“I was revolting, but I couldn't recoil from myself because I was stuck inside of it.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“I tried to smile and shake my head at the right times, but I was always a moment behind them. They laughed because something was funny; I laughed because they had.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“It sucked having a dead person in your family, and I know what he meant, about seeking solace in the old light. Three years from now, I knew, he'd find a different favorite star, one with older light to gaze upon. And when time caught up with that one, he'd love a farther star, and a farther one, because you can't let the light catch up with the present. Otherwise you'd forget.

That's why I liked looking at my dad's pictures. It was the same thing, really. Photographs are just light and time.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“What were these people doing, Marianne thought, writing on the Facebook wall of a dead person? What did these messages, these advertisements of loss, actually mean to anyone?
...
Of course, it didn't make sense to write on his Facebook wall, but nothing else made sense either. If people appeared to behave pointlessly in grief, it was only because human life was pointless, and this was the truth that grief revealed.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People