Denize Chung

“those were the best moments of my life. Your fingertips in the palm of my hand. Before you knew how many things I'd failed at.”
― Fredrik Backman

“Anything that grows closely enough to what it loves will eventually share the same roots. We can talk about loss, we can treat it and give it time, but biology still forces us to live according to certain rules: plants that are split down the middle don't heal, they die.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“For me, becoming isn't about arriving somewhere or chieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder