Jeleni

“My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.”
― Laura Amy Schlitz

“I suppose it’s part of why we seek out a partner. Why we’re driven to build a new family, pursue new friendships. There’s freedom in being a blank canvas to another person and having some control over what is painted on that canvas.”
― Penny Reid, Grin and Beard It

“Why can’t healing happen as quickly as wounding? You twist an ankle, break a bone- you can be hurt in a heartbeat. Hour by hour, week by week, year by year, the cells in your body labor to remake themselves the way they were the instant before your injury. But even then you’re never the same: not quite.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“As far as I can tell, the uncertain part is every second we’re alive, until the last.”
― Mary Laura Philpott, Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives