Rachel

“The point of the story is they built the city anyway, you know? You work with what you have. they had this shit river, and they managed to build an okay city around it. Not a great city, maybe. But not bad. You're not the river. You're the city.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Life is a bleak place," he whispers. "Sometimes you have to learn how to shoot first.”
― Tahereh Mafi

“You start to understand that grief is chronic. That it's more about remission and relapse than it is about a cure. What that means to you is that you can't simply wait for it to be over. You have to move through it, like swimming in an undertow.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“But what if I don't need her permission, her approval, her praise to be who I want to be and do what I love? What if I'm in charge of my own damn light switch?”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun