Abby O'Laughlin

“To truly pass, you must overcome what cannot be overcome.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“I wept because i had no shoes,
until i met a man who had no feet.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“Onto his stomach. Then knees. Then hands. His elbows quivered, his wrists threatened to buckle under his own weight. Self-centered, stubborn, sentimental, childish, vain. I am humanity. Cynical, naive, kind, cruel, soft as down, hard as tungsten steel.
I am humanity
He crawled.
I am humanity.
He fell.
I am humanity.
He got up.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“Most life is spent doing things we don't want to do.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory