Amber

“I can't get rid of the sadness," Laronne said.
"Well," David said, "then we'll just keep it company.”
― Heidi Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Happiness is not experiencing something else; it’s continually experiencing what you already have in new and different ways.”
― Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

“Maybe that's all real love was--just something that happened quickly and vanished, a kind of gesture to a stranger or a fleeting moment of passion.”
― Steffan Piper, Greyhound