Sara

“I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache.
I don’t know if that’s what he wanted to ask me, but it’s something everybody wants – for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“So...It’s just that I have a problem with voltage. I don’t know how to explain it...I often get the feeling I’ve got a button missing, you know, some knob for adjusting the volume. I always go too far to one extreme or the other. I can never find the right balance and whatever I take a fancy to—well, it always ends badly.” She was surprised at herself. Why was she confiding in him like this? Slightly tipsy, maybe? “When I drink, I drink too much, when I smoke, I fuck myself up, when I love, I go out of my mind and when I work, it’s into the ground. Dead. I don’t know how to do things normally, quietly, I—”
― Anna Gavalda, Hunting and Gathering

“Fiecare persoana este o posibilitate. Sentimentalii incurabili simt cel mai acut asta, dar chiar si pentru altii, singurul mod de a nu se da batauti este sa vada fiecare persoana ca pe-o posibilitate.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“If you stare at the center of the universe, there is coldness there. A blankness. Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.”
― David Levithan, Every Day