Raquel

“We’ve got a long way to go,” preambled Dean, “and so you must take every indulgence and deal with every single detail you can bring to mind—and still it won’t all be told.
Part 4 Chapter 4”
― Jack Kerouac

“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

-Book 2, chapter 1”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“We have concluded that the young are in a state of disabling despair. While more clear-minded, in some ways, than their elders—that is, more able to voice and maintain criticism of wrongs and faults—they are not able to believe in their own effectiveness.”
― Doris Lessing, Report on the Threatened City: A Gripping Science Fiction Story of Alien Observers and Societal Collapse

“She was eighteen and most lovely, and lost.

Chapter 11”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road