James McGuffey

“I don’t know what will be left of me if love and grief can’t bring you back to life. Maybe I need to be brought back to life, too.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

“Forgive me,’ he whispered. I held my father’s gaze. Sometimes he seemed to grow a little older just by looking at me and remembering. I stood up and hugged him quietly. He held me tight and when he burst into tears the anger and the pain he’d buried in his soul all those years gushed out like blood. I knew then, without being able to explain clearly why, that slowly, inexorably, my father had begun to die.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prisoner of Heaven

“Earth’s Moon is about 1/400th the diameter of the Sun, but it is also 1/400th as far from us, making the Sun and the Moon the same size on the sky—a coincidence not shared by any other planet–moon combination in the solar system, allowing for uniquely photogenic total solar eclipses. Earth has also tidally locked the Moon, leaving it with identical periods of rotation on its axis and revolution around Earth. Wherever and whenever this happens, the locked moon shows only one face to its host planet.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

“One mustn’t dream of one’s future; one must earn it. And you have no future, Salgado. Neither you, nor a country that keeps producing beasts like you and the governor, and then looks the other way. Between us all we’ve destroyed the future and all that awaits us is shit like the shit you’re dripping with now and that I’m sick of cleaning off you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prisoner of Heaven