angela

“Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath,
but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every
part of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Life
consists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living.
A man maybe buried at a hundred and may never have lived at all.
He would have fared better had he died young.”
― Jean Jacques Rousseau

“Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.'
'How pleasant then to be insane!”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories

“Your strange!” she gushed. (She meant “You’re,” but Peter felt absolutely certain that she was one of those people who spell it “Your.”)”
― David James Duncan, The Brothers K

“But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may even be their duty.”
― David James Duncan, The Brothers K