Avery N.

“Pete?" I say, my voice crackling. "Please don't die."
Pete gives me a dazzling smile and bows. "To die will be an awfully big adventure." He blows me a kiss and pulls the heavy door shut with a metallic clank, leaving me alone in the dark.”
― Wendy Spinale, Everland

“The problem with happy endings is that they're either not really happy, or not really endings, you know? In real life, some things get better and some things get worse. And then eventually you die.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Gradually, I’d learned to dole out my “real” personality in small, safe doses to avoid scaring people away.”
― Peter Bognanni, Things I'm Seeing Without You

“I couldn't stop thinking about him. He was an attractive nuisance, a shiny object.”
― Laura Creedle, The Love Letters of Abelard and Lily