Mikka

“Open yourself up, do not harden yourself to the world, and be bold in who, and how, you love. There is courage in that.”
― Bianca Sparacino, Seeds Planted in Concrete

“Trust me when I say that I will love you in your humanness. I will love you for your twists, I will love you for your faults. Trust me when I say that I will love it all.”
― Bianca Sparacino, Seeds Planted in Concrete

“I'm angry because you think everything happened by chance but there are billions of people on this planet and I found you so if you're saying I could just as well have found someone else then I can't bear your bloody mathematics!" Her fists had been clenched. He stood there looking at her for several minutes. Then he said that he loved her. It was the first time. They never stopped arguing and they never slept apart; he spent an entire working life calculating probabilities and she was the most improbable person he ever met. She turned him upside-down.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“To live eveyday as if it had been stolen from death, that is jow I would like to live. To feel the joy of life, as Eve felt the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter everyday. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to. When I am a person, that is how I will live my life.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain