Serena Shwe

“If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“To eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“This idea of nonattachment can sound cold or unnatural. But a recognition of impermanence has its benefits. For one”
― William Green, Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World’s Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life