Jamie

“No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere

“And I was crying for gravity. It had sent me down the stairs, and I'd thought that meant something, but maybe it was just the direction that all things tend to flow.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

“Humans may progress. They may think that they are moving forward because they have invented clever machines and because they control the land and sea. But man's capacity to inflict and endure pain is constant. Man's desire for power, to beat down his competition - it hasn't changed in the slightest.”
― Gemma Malley, The Returners

“The song is languid and speaks of love and loneliness and loss. Why does love seem to go with the sad things?”
― Lisa Ann Sandell, A Map of the Known World