Maya Kirkpatrick

“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

“Pain demands to be felt.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“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

“You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down