Mia

“Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“Alive? I'm made of bronze. I do not breathe, nor do I eat or drink. So, no, I am not alive. Nor am I dead, for that matter. I simply exist”
― Crown of Midnight

“I want to take back at least half the “I love you”s, because it feels safer that way.”
― David Levithan

“...I loved the notion that the night was mine to spend, and I immediately decided to spend it on you.”
― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary