moonchild

“All I can say is that I’m grateful that in many ways they just let me be. They didn’t want my rough start to cast a shadow on my childhood. From my earliest days they allowed me the kind of independence that many of my peers didn’t have—whether it was my period of digging, or the times in early elementary school when I went solo camping in the mountains several miles above our home. In solitude, I felt more deeply immersed in my surroundings. It felt natural.”
― Tommy Caldwell, The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk and Going Beyond Limits to Climb the Dawn Wall

“But before he leaped away he asked, “Still best friends, right?”
A soft smile curled her lips, and her heart pulled back into place.
“Forever.”
― Shannon Messenger, Nightfall

“The Day You're Born is Not The Day You Grow, It's The Day You Evolve. The Revolution Is Up To You.”
― Goitsemang Mvula

“At other times, he wondered whether it was the world that had lost its color, or his friends themselves. When had everyone become so alike?”
― Hanya Yanagihara , A Little Life