Aria Greendyk

“I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“And, most precious of all, you will have Time—that rare and lovely gift that your Western countries have lost the more they have pursued it.”
― James Hilton, Lost Horizon

“He found that he was often angry, now: irrationally angry at his groupmates, that they were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himself, that he could not change that for them.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“A gift, she thought again, placing her mittened hand lightly on his leg, a gift to be able to know someone for so many years.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge