Maya Kirkpatrick

“Is that so?” he asked. “I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.

I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God. I can be brave. I can make myself feel again.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“Sometimes the bravest thing in the world was to sit through the night and feel the cold in your bones.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“The bad stuff never stops happening: it lives in its own dimension, repaying itself over and over.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried