Callista

“Something like that. But you know, there's an upside here. Because when you spend so much time just intensely wanting something, and then you actually get the thing? It's magic.” All of a sudden, I feel like crying. In a good way. In the best way. Because I know exactly what she means. It's butterflies and haziness and heart eyes, but underneath all that, there's this bass line of I can't believe this. I can't believe this is me. I can't quite articulate the sweetness of that feeling. It's finding out the door you were banging on is finally unlocked. Maybe it was unlocked the whole time.”
― Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited

“i am a museum full of art
but you had your eyes shut”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall