Joy

“Because I long to feel nothing. I want to be frozen inside. I want the icy cold to blow directly on my heart.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it's just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“And the truth is not what people want to hear. It's a bad thing, and it troubles people.”
― Neil Gaiman