Kelly

“Rule one,” she said, forcing her voice even, light. “Don’t make friends. It never ends well.” Riley rolled a soda can between his palms. “But doesn’t it get lonely?” Kate smiled. It was so easy when you could lie. “No.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“So, after jumping from major to major (advertising, fine art, photography, illustration) and finally settling on the mundane (but at least useful) BFA in design, I took the first job that would keep me in New York and out of my old bedroom in my parents’ house in Northern California.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“We did not spend our days gazing into each other’s eyes. We did that gazing when we made love or when one of us was in trouble, but most of the time our gazes met and entwined as they looked at a third thing. Third things are essential to marriages, objects or practices or habits or arts or institutions or games or human beings that provide a site of joint rapture or contentment. Each member of a couple is separate; the two come together in double attention.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“It wasn’t easy. The world was complicated. Life was hard. And so often, living hurt. So make it worth the pain.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet