Nessie

“La teoría de los archipiélagos viene a decir que todos somos islas, llegamos solos a este mundo y nos vamos exactamente igual, pero necesitamos tener otras islas alrededor para sentirnos felices en medio de ese mar que une tanto como separa. Yo siempre he pensado que sería una isla pequeñita, de esas en las que hay tres palmeras, una playa, dos rocas y poco más; me he sentido invisible durante gran parte de mi vida. Pero entonces apareciste tú, que sin duda serías una isla volcánica llena de grutas y flores. Y es la primera vez que me pregunto si dos islas pueden tocarse en la profundidad del océano, aunque nadie sea capaz de verlo. Si eso existe, si entre los corales y sedimentos y lo que sea que nos ancla en medio del mar hay un punto de unión, sin duda somos tú y yo. Y si no es así, estamos tan cerca que estoy convencido de poder llegar nadando hasta ti.”
― Alice Kellen, La teoría de los archipiélagos

“To look up at the nighttime sky is to become a part of a long line of people throughout human history who looked above at that same set of stars. It is to witness time unfolding.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“But I think it is also the relief I feel that those stars are immovable. Nothing you or I could do will ever alter them. They are so much bigger than us. And they will not change within our lifetime. We can succeed or fail, get it right or get it wrong, love and lose the ones we love, and still the Summer Triangle will point south. And in that way, I know everything will be some type of okay—as impossible as that can seem sometimes.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“Because the world had decided that to be soft was to be weak, even though in Joan’s experience being soft and flexible was always more durable than being hard and brittle. Admitting you were afraid always took more guts than pretending you weren’t. Being willing to make a mistake got you further than never trying. The world had decided that to be fallible was weak. But we are all fallible. The strong ones are the ones who accept it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere