Leah

“Learning to be an adult was learning that your best was rarely quite enough.”
― Jennifer duBois, Cartwheel

“They’re what I lost, they’re everything I want to be.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“Listen, twenty years ago, it wasn’t so cool to have a calculator watch, right? And spending all day inside playing with your calculator watch sent a clear message that you weren’t doing so well socially. And judgments like ‘like’ and ‘dislike’ and ‘smiles’ and ‘frowns’ were limited to junior high. Someone would write a note and it would say, ‘Do you like unicorns and stickers?’ and you’d say, ‘Yeah, I like unicorns and stickers! Smile!’ That kind of thing. But now it’s not just junior high kids who do it, it’s everyone, and it seems to me sometimes I’ve entered some inverted zone, some mirror world where the dorkiest shit in the world is completely dominant. The world has dorkified itself.”
― Dave Eggers, The Circle

“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See