Matty Barone

“Grown-ups like numbers. When you tell them about a new friend, they never ask questions about what really matters. They never ask: ‘What does his voice sound like?’ ‘What games does he like best?’ ‘Does he collect butterflies?’ They ask: ‘How old is he?’ ‘How many brothers does he have?’ ‘How much does he weigh?’ ‘How much money does he have?’ Only then do they think they know him. If you tell grown-ups, ‘I saw a beautiful red brick house, with geraniums at the windows and doves at the roof…,’ they won’t be able to imagine such a house. You have to tell them, ‘I saw a house worth a thousand francs.’ Then they exclaim, ‘What a pretty house!”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“There was no way I’d be able to sleep tonight, or sit through school tomorrow. I had to go now.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“You have as many lives as you have possibilities. There are lives where you make different choices. And those choices lead to different outcomes. If you had done just one thing differently, you would have a different life story. And they all exist in the Midnight Library. They are all as real as this life.’ ‘Parallel lives?’ ‘Not always parallel. Some are more . . . perpendicular.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“ANNOYED THAT THE “Love ya” I would have normally received at the end of a call with Garrett had been downgraded to a “See ya,” I slapped my phone flat on the couch and yelled “What a jerk!” at the ceiling.”
― T. Marie Vandelly, Theme Music