Rachel

“Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

“If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“She supposed she must be in love. That [he] was slightly infuriating, and that she didn’t mind in the slightest, might be proof of it.”
― Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave Is Forgiven

“Love and learning are similar in that they can never be wasted.”
― Hope Jahren, Lab Girl