Jarrod

“So you must wake up every morning knowing that no promise is unbreakable, least of all the promise of waking up at all. This is not despair. These are the preferences of the universe itself: verbs over nouns, actions over states, struggle over hope.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Frankly, I'm not responsible for other people's perceptions and what they consider real or fake. We must abolish the entitlement that deludes us into believing that we have the right to make assumptions about people's identities and project those assumptions onto their genders and bodies.”
― Janet Mock, Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska