Veronica Schram

“The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it...”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“You gotta faith it to make it! Looking for a miracle to happen? Consider that perhaps something not happening was your miracle.”
― Karen Salmansohn, Instant Happy: 10-Second Attitude Makeovers

“Why not admit history's power to divide and destroy? Why attach ourselves to the age-old stories in the belief that they are truer than the new ones? By living in the past, you always know what comes next, and that robs you of surprises. It exhausts and warps the mind. We are lucky simply to be alive together; why get differentiating and judgmental about who is here among us? Thank God there is anyone at all.”
― Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories

“With all of these opportunities and very few demands--especially as some of our parents continue to pay for our amenities--we have been able to extend our adolescence into what used to be considered adulthood. This extension has inevitably pushed off the questions of marriage and procreation, and when those questions are pushed further back into our personal timelines, dating loses its significance as a means to an end, though arguably also a good in itself. And without a direction, dating and relationships lose their rules, or at the very least, some general parameters.”
― Elise Italiano