Carrington

“How old are you?”
“Seventeen,” he answered promptly.
“And how long have you been seventeen?”
His lips twitched as he stared at the road. “A while,” he admitted at last.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people will coordinate a search. If a train crashes, people will line up to give blood. If an earthquake levels a city, people all over the world will send emergency supplies. This is so fundamentally human that it's found in every culture without exception. Yes, there are assholes who just don't care, but they're massively outnumbered by the people who do.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“I might not be able to decide whether the road is easy or not, but whether I walk it is entirely up to me.”
― Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, Heaven Official's Blessing

“Everything’s senseless until someone makes sense of it. Life doesn’t explain itself.”
― Scott Meyer, Spell or High Water