Babu

“Everything's a game. Avery Grambs. The only thing we get to decide in life is if we play to win.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“Everything you see is in the process of making or unmaking, living or dying. Everything is in a state of change.”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

“There's an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer that I've been thinking about a lot while writing this essay. In it, Buffy sacrifices her own life to save her sister, and right before she does, she tells her sister that the hardest thing to do in the world is to live - ironic words coming from someone about to kill herself for the greater good. As I'm writing this, I just keep thinking that Katniss never gets to sacrifice herself. She doesn't get the heroic death. She survives - and that leaves her doing the hardest thing in the world: living in it once so many of the ones she loves are gone.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Girl Who Was on Fire

“How much beauty you've missed. Because it really is beautiful: this future you prayed we would never get the chance to see. I think you'd like it if you gave it a chance. But that's something I've learned in the years since I left the ranch: you cannot change people who refuse to be changed”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear