Alyssa Kline

“You’re doing it backward, hon. You’re doing everything ass-backward. Lying in bed trying to figure out what kind of life to have so you can get up and have it. It doesn’t work that way. Never did, never will. You want to know what life has in store for you? Then get up and start living it and you’ll find out. You can’t figure it out in your head first. Put one foot in front of the other. Take a step with your left foot. Then one with your right foot. Repeat as necessary. More will be revealed. Nobody ever got anywhere lying in bed waiting to feel ready to start something hard, because you never will feel ready. The longer you put it off, the less you’ll feel ready. Once you’re out there doing it, the ready will kick in after the fact.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Falling Apart and Other Gifts from the Universe

“Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

“even though going out for a jog can make you feel alive and whole and powerful, it also leave you vulnerable and alone. But we keep running anyway. Because we have no other choice. We run in spite of this. We run knowing the dangers, knowing who we are and why we could be targeted. But that won't stop us”
― Jessica Goodman

“It feels like this perfectly glassy ocean. Like being out on the ocean but no surf and no swells and no wind. Just all this silence. All this lack of movement. Nothing moves at all. The world is just still. Which almost sounds nice, except it doesn’t feel nice. There’s some kind of heaviness to it. It feels dark and thick. And it gets even less nice when all of a sudden you realize you’re a sailboat. And you’re just going nowhere.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Falling Apart and Other Gifts from the Universe