Chelsea Raak

“he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I can’t lose the thing I’ve held onto for so long, you know?” My face twists up from the pain of pushing it out. “I just really need it to be a love story, you know? I really, really need it to be that.”
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses