Palak Madaan

“Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people,” I say. “Maybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time.” Hauling them in as we make choices, good and bad, as we screw up, step up, lose our minds, find our minds, fall apart, fall in love, as we grieve, grow, retreat from the world, dive into the world, as we make things, as we break things.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Oh, please. Everyone in this town always says that, like you have to be born here to understand things. I understand plenty. You're only as weird as you want to be.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“I don't know about you, but looking up into the sky on a clear night is enough to give me existential chills.”
― Johnny B. Truant, The Universe Doesn't Give a Flying Fuck About You

“Forgiveness is tricky, Alexis, because in the end it’s more about you than it’s about the person who’s being forgiven”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye