Baillie ♡

“Somewhere, out in the world, are the people who touched us, or loved us, or ran from us. In that way we will live on. If you go to the places we have been, you might meet someone who passed us once in a corridor but forgot us before we were even gone. We are in the back of hundreds of people's photographs - moving, talking, blurring into the background of a picture two strangers have framed on their living room mantelpiece. And in that way, we will live on too. But it isn't enough. It isn't enough to have been a particle in the great extant of existence. I want, we want, more. We want for people to know us, to know our story, to know who we are and who we will be. And after we've gone, to know who we were.”
― Marianne Cronin, The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

“Did you want to do something else? he asked.
She sighed. "I think every plan I ever had involved everything happening later. You're twenty-two, twenty-three, time is sort of infinite. It's like a pool where you can't touch the bottom. I knew there would be something else, but it was always after. After, after. It was like I was waiting for something to start, and I was accidentally in the middle of it the whole time.”
― Linda Holmes, Evvie Drake Starts Over

“Please try to remember that books aren’t always an escape; sometimes books teach us things. They show us the world; they don’t hide it.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“I suck at being social. I think one thing and my mouth says something completely different, like I'm possessed. By a whole lot of stupid.”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella