Monica Arone

“There is no purity to bearing pain alone.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Science ran too far ahead of us too quickly, and the people got lost in a mechanical wilderness, like children making over pretty things, gadgets, helicopters, rockets; emphasizing the wrong items, emphasizing machines instead of how to run the machines.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

“My to-do list lived in my head and went with me everywhere. I assessed my goals, analyzed my outcomes, counted my wins. If there was a challenge to vault, I’d vault it. One proving ground only opened onto the next. Such is the life of a girl who can’t stop wondering, Am I good enough? and is still trying to show herself the answer.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Go out in the world and fuck it up beautifully.”
― John Waters, Make Trouble