Ana

“All my life, normal people had mostly baffled me-the ridiculous ways they strove to impress one another, the mediocre goals that seemed to drive them, the banality of their dreams. The way people rejected anything that didn’t fit their narrow paradigm of acceptability, as if those who thought or acted or dressed or dreamed differently from them were a threat to their very existence.”
― Ransom Riggs, A Map of Days

“Maybe. Maybe there was a way. And then things could be so good.
My brain was a hope-making machine.”
― Ransom Riggs, A Map of Days

“ultimate expression of love is nagging, we don’t nag anyone the way we nag the people we love. All parents know that,”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“The person we fall in love with, we hardly ever call by their name. Because it’s somehow just so obvious that it’s you I’m talking to, that it’s you I’m always thinking of. Who else?”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends