Celeste

“But words will live as long as people can remember them. Tattoos, for example, are very hard to forget.’ He buttons his button. ‘I think there’s something about the impermanence of life these days that makes it necessary to etch ink into our skin,’ he says. ‘It reminds us that we’ve been marked by the world, that we're still alive. That we’ll never forget.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“One of the strange things about adulthood is that you are your current self, but you are also all the selves you used to be, the ones you grew out of but can't ever quite get rid of.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“Rivers keep going, and we keep going, and there is no way back to the roof of that hotel. But the memory still holds me together.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“Hope holds you fast like an anchor so you don't give way.”
― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass