Ella

“But it became clear very quickly that I'd underestimated how much I liked him. Not him, perhaps, but the fact that I had someone on the other end of an invisible line. Someone to update and get updates from, to inform of a comic discovery, to imagine while dancing in a lonely basement, and to return to, finally, when the music stopped.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“And when Eleanor smiled, something broke inside of him.
Something always did.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“Prayer is the outstretched arms of the child for the Father’s help.”
― E.M. Bounds, The Complete Collection of E. M. Bounds on Prayer

“I'm sorry about yesterday," she said.
He hung on to his straps and shrugged. "Yesterday happens.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park