Victoria

“Who said anything about forgetting? The point of forgiveness is to recognize that someone has hurt you, and to still love them in spite of it.”
― Katharine McGee, American Royals

“Stars are important," I say, laughing.

"Sure, but why not more poems about the sun? The sun is also a star, and it's our most important one. That alone should be worth a poem or two.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“So, imagine we're all born with a set of feelings. Some are broader or deeper than others, but for everyone, there's that ground
floor, a bottom crust of the pie. That's the maximum depth of feelings you've ever experienced. And then, the worst thing that could have happened. The thing you've had nightmares about as a child, and you thought, it's all right because that thing will happen to me when I'm older and wiser, and I'll have felt so many feelings by then that this one worst feeling, the worst possible feeling, won't seem so terrible.
But it happens to you when you're young. It happens when your brain isn't even fully done cooking - when you've barely experienced anything, really. The worst thing is one of the first big things that ever happens to you in your life. It happens to you, and it goes all the way down to the bottom of what you know how to feel, and it rips it open and carves out this chasm down below to make room. And because you were so young, and because it was one of the first big things to happen in your life, you'll always carry it inside you. Every time something terrible happens to you from then on, it doesn't just stop at the bottom - it goes all the way down.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay