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“For as long as I could remember, other people had either overshadowed me or left me out in the open, alone. But Mac, as Layla had said all those weeks ago, was always somewhere nearby. He left me enough space to stand alone, but stood at the ready for the moment that I didn’t want to. It was the perfect medium, I was learning. Like he was my saint, the one I’d been waiting for.”
― Sarah Dessen, Saint Anything

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts

“Let people feel the weight of who you really are, and let them fucking deal with it.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Love

“The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places