Brittany

“Marianne wanted her life to mean something then, she wanted to stop all violence committed by the strong against the weak, and she remembered a time several years ago when she had felt so intelligent and young and powerful that she almost could have achieved such a thing, and now she knew she wasn’t at all powerful, and she would live and die in a world of extreme violence against the innocent, and at most she could help only a few people.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“I felt like I might end up anywhere, and imagining all the future I might have, all the Azas I might become, was a glorious and welcome vacation from living with the me I currently was.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“My mother's footsteps
Were so quiet
I barely heard her leave.”
― 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