Patricia

“I can't seem to keep my heart from leaking out of the cracks, like sand clutched in a fist.”
― Kiersten White, The Chaos of Stars

“What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971