Steffy

“Your problem is not that you misread signs; all you see are signs.”
― André Aciman, Enigma Variations

“In the distance, beyond the stretch of burned, dead dirt, beyond the carcass of the submarine now slowly moving away, a patch of wildflowers in yellow and blue stood, and looking at it, she felt her despair displaced by something simultaneously heavier and lighter. Han. There was no English equivalent, no translation. It was an overwhelming sorrow and regret, a grief and yearning so deep it pervades your soul - buy with a sprinkling of resilience, of hope.”
― Angie Kim

“Employment is becoming a dehumanizing process, as if humans existed to serve work, rather than work to serve humans.”
― Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet

“I don't mean it in any suicidal sense," she said, and she was whispering even quieter now, like she was telling me a terrible secret. "You know how you can have the most exausting day and you can't wait to get home and fall into bed and sleep for hours? I feel that way about life. There are people out there who read books about vampires and they crave immortality, but sometimes I'm so thankful that at the end of it all, we get to sleep forever. No more pain. No more exhaustion. Death is the reward for having lived.”
― Krystal Sutherland, Our Chemical Hearts