Jensen Legette

“I decided to make a home for myself, inside myself. In the dirty, cracked mess of me. I decided to love it all.”
― Laura McKowen

“This is what it really means to be alive—to not look away from any of it—and that all I was really doing before was pretending: floating through my days half-numb, half-involved, half-awake, thinking I was really living when in fact I was missing it all.”
― Laura McKowen, We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

“The fear of failure kills creativity and intelligence. The only thing it produces is conformity.”
― Anup Kochhar, The Failure Project -The Story Of Man's Greatest Fear

“Just like that. From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond. I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska