Heidi Platt

“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

“We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“You could almost see the idea elbowing its way around the inside of his mind, like Athena in the cranium of Zeus.”
― Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow