Carmen

“It might look like people are ahead of you, be it in money, looks or opportunity, but here's what - Eyes on your own paper, folks! Everyone has to do the work. People who just get handed opportunity without the effort usually fuck it up and end up much lower than when they started. Your career is something that starts with the first step, not with a promotion or a movie or an award. It begins the minute you say you are going to do it. So make it all count.”
― Andrew Rannells, Too Much Is Not Enough: A Memoir of Fumbling Toward Adulthood

“The love stories sold us the wrong thing. The best kind of love doesn’t happen on moonlit walks and romantic vacations. It happens in between the folds of everyday life. It’s not grand gestures that show how you feel, it’s all the little secret things you do to make her life better that you never tell her about. Taking the end piece of the bread at breakfast so she can have the last middle piece for her sandwich when you pack her lunch. Making sure her car always has gas so she never has to stop at the pump. Telling her you’re not cold and to take your jacket when you are in fact, very, very cold. It’s watching TV on a rainy Sunday while you’re doing laundry and turning her light off when she’s fallen asleep reading. Sharing pizza crusts and laughing about something the kids did and taking care of each other when you’re sick. It isn’t glamorous, it isn’t all butterflies and stars in your eyes. It’s real. This is the kind of love that forever is made of. Because if it’s this good when life is draining and mundane and hard, think of how wonderful it will be when the love songs are playing and the moon is out.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“After a few moments, he spoke again. "When I was younger, I thought the Ashkar must be very dangerous, to be kept within walls."

"When I was young," Lin said, reaching for bandages, "I thought the malbushim must be very dangerous, for us to have to keep them out with walls."

"Ah," he said, and yawned again. "Perspective is everything, isn't it?”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“This," he said, taking my hand. "You. Me. The pack. This place. The people of Green Creek. That's the point, I think. We love because we can. We live because we've fought too hard to ever stop. And here we are, you and me. Together. In a moment, we'll go inside and join the others. We'll eat. We'll laugh. We'll tell stories about our day, inconsequential things that mean little to anyone but us. That's the point, I think.”
― T.J. Klune, Brothersong