Kathleen

“those awful things are survivable, because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“When you are in your twenties, even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life itself is, and of what you in life are, and might become. Later.. later there is more uncertainty, more overlapping, more backtracking, more false memories. Back then, you can remember your short life in its entirety. Later, the memory becomes a thing of shreds and patches.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter -- maybe less than a lot, but always more than none.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“She didn't leave me enough to discover her, but she left me enough to rediscover the Great Perhaps.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska