nightnur5e

“Hey,' she whispers. 'I want you to know something. I want you to believe it so deeply it's the last thing you think about before you fall asleep. And when it's your turn to go, I want you to take it with you.'
The sun has erupted into blazing red. The warmth of the light touches my face. 'What?'
'Every second I spent on earth,' she says, 'I knew how much you loved me. It shaped who I was.”
― Ashley Winstead, The Future Saints

“Writing songs is performing, on a small scale, what it means to be a being that exists as a temporary eruption of thought and feeling. We're fireworks, right? This beautiful glittering explosion that's dying as soon as it starts living. Once I understood that, it felt like there was no more meaningful thing to do with my life than create beauty with an expiration date. Art like us.”
― Ashley Winstead, The Future Saints

“I get it,’ Christos said after a while. ‘I’m no genius, and I like the smart girls too. I think it’s an evolutionary thing, for our survival. If we’re not smart, we have to bag a smart girl.”
― Sally Hepworth, Mad Mabel

“Stop wasting your time berating yourself for not doing things you can’t do. You know how many things I can’t do? Do you see me having a self-worth crisis because I can’t change the oil in my car or make a damn pie crust from scratch? No. Because I’m fucking great at a bunch of other things”
― Lucy Score, Mistakes Were Made