Meri

“All their lives Nath had understood, better than anyone, the lexicon of their family, the things they could never truly explain to outsiders: that a book or a dress meant more than something to read or something to wear; that attention came with expectations that—like snow—drifted and settled and crushed you with their weight. All the words were right, but in this new Nath’s voice, they sounded trivial and brittle and hollow. The way anyone else might have heard them. Already her brother had become a stranger.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available. I stay with him because I choose to everyday that I wake up, everyday that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.”
― Jessica Pan, Graduates in Wonderland: The International Misadventures of Two (Almost) Adults

“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
― Marvin Bell

“When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”
― Hilaire Belloc