Jenna Steptoe

“Maybe it's possible to belong in a hundred different ways to a hundred different people and places.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“But explanations don’t change anything, do they? They don’t make you feel any better. You either like something or you don’t, and if you don’t like it, then knowing why it happens doesn’t make any difference—it’s still going to happen and you’re still not going to like it, so what’s the point?”
― Kevin Brooks, Candy

“Nothing except luck protects you from catastrophe.”
― Therese Anne Fowler, Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

“They are embossed on every song that was a hit that summer, in every novel I read during and after his stay, on anything from the smell of rosemary on hot days to the frantic rattle of the cicadas in the afternoon—smells and sounds I’d grown up with and known every year of my life until then but that had suddenly turned on me and acquired an inflection forever colored by the events of that summer.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name