Xio Ayala

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“Politics always change. Stories never do.”
― Stephen King, It

“Gus loaded this giveaway site called Free No Catch and together we wrote an ad.
“Headline?” he asked.
“‘Swing Set Needs Home,’” I said.“‘Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,’” he said.
“‘Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,’” I said.
He laughed. “That’s why.”
“What?”
“That’s why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates an adjectival version of the word pedophile?
You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“and even though I was in bed and he was in his basement, it really felt like we were back in that uncreated third space, which was a place I really liked visiting with him.”
― John Green