Nick

“The head is too wise. The heart is all fire.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

“Want and need were words that got eaten smaller and smaller: Freedom, autonomy, a perennial bank balance, a stainless-steel condo in a dustless city, a silky black car, to make out with Blue, eight hours of sleep, a cell phone, a bed, to kiss Blue just once, a blister-less heel, bacon for breakfast, to hold Blue's hand, one hour of sleep, toilet paper, deodorant, a soda, a minute to close his eyes.

What do you want, Adam?

To feel awake when my eyes are open.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“If I cannot forget, what is there? I am always remembering, even when I am not. Me is in itself a remembrance. Me does not exist without the past that shaped my being. And what is there between memory and forgetting? Today?”
― Rivers Solomon, Model Home

“How could he never get rid of his feelings? Even when he said them out loud they stayed there, taunting him like skin tags. He was always reminded of something or other, which in turn reminded and reminded: ketchup and trees, chicken feet, running, even bowling, some TV show where the actress lost her teeth and sooner or later there he is back in his childhood body, listening to sounds through the wall when his mother was with the super, sounds that could have been anything but he knew exactly what they were. What was the point of anything if he can still remember it like yesterday.”
― Frankie Barnet, Mood Swings