Paoline

“Love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow — beautiful while it’s there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“I realized I would always be missing something. That no matter what I did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn’t miss meant more to me than the things I missed. I had to think about what I wanted, outside the heat of wanting.”
― David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories