Betty

“You were you,
and I was I;
we were two
before our time.

I was yours
before I knew,
and you have always
been mine too.”
― Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

“When there is only you, you do not get to choose which jobs you want, you do not get to decide you are incapable of anything. There is no room for distaste or weakness. You must do it all. All of the ugliness, the sadness, the things most people can’t stand to even think about, all must live inside of you. You must be capable of everything.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.”
― Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven: Poems

“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest