Rosalie

“In these journals I would frequently write messages to myself, a person whom I addressed as Big Me, or The Future Me. Rereading these entries as the addressee, I try not to be insulted, since my former self admonishes me frequently. "I hope you are not a failure," he says. "I hope you are happy," he says.”
― Dan Chaon, Among the Missing

“Eventually reality will catch up with you, Dia. You can run and you can distract yourself, but you can't fight it off forever.”
― Blake Northcott

“I felt so full of love for everything. But at the same time, I felt so hung out to dry there, like nobody could ever understand. I felt so alone in this world, and so loved at the same time.”
― Maria Semple, Where'd You Go, Bernadette

“For in song lies the mystery of Being.”
― Mohja Kahf, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf