Emily

“Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

“He was not happy. He was not happy. He said the words to himself. He recognized this as the true state of affairs. He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“When I think of the incredible, incomprehensible sweep of creation above me, I have the strange reaction of feeling fully alive. Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, seta against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignificant, but instead I feel a soaring in my heart that the God who could create all this—and out of nothing—can still count the hairs of my head.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, The Irrational Season

“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska