Lola

“So there's this theory about the multiverse," Hunter starts in sad reverence. His voice was of a morbidly curious scientist. "that says that we're just one copy of ourselves. What if we're just figments of a dying universe? All of this could have already happened. We could have crashed and burned ten times over. But what if there was a multiverse that had a copy of you, that met a copy of me, and they didn't quite have this much...affliction. What if there was another Alex, who didn't have torment thundering down her eyes every time I looked at her. What if we already lived our *'and we lived'*?" he stops to look at me. *Really* look at me, and I could have been seeing the whole universe in his eyes.
"What if it was as simple as *'hey'*?”
― Reem Aquil, X

“People like me should come with a mute button.”
― Becky Albertalli, What If It's Us

“I learn that we become our thoughts, which is why it’s so important to believe in a friendly, rather than a hostile universe.”
― Catherine Gray, The Unexpected Joy of Being Single

“Even considering the data that shows the majority of marriages don’t last, people still think marriage is the normal human state. Most people want to get married. Is there anything else that people do in such huge numbers, with such a terrible success rate?”
― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things