“Love.” The word floated between us on a soft gust of air. “Deep, abiding, unconditional love. You want it so much you’re willing to live for it.” Most people thought the biggest sacrifice they could make was to die for something. They were wrong. The biggest sacrifice someone could make was to live for something—to allow it to consume you and turn you into a version of yourself you didn’t recognize. Death was oblivion; life was reality, the harshest truth that had ever existed.”
― Twisted Love
― Twisted Love
“Perfecting cream. That’s what they called this crap I’d swiped from my mother’s makeup bag.
It had to make me gorgeous. By law.”
― Interference
It had to make me gorgeous. By law.”
― Interference
“Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less”
― The Edge of Never
― The Edge of Never
“I don’t think you ever really fall out of love with someone. I think when you fall in love, like true love, it’s love for life. All the rest is just experience and delusions.”
― The Edge of Never
― The Edge of Never
“In fact, poor students often feel more successful (until they are tested), because they don’t experience much self-doubt. In psychology, this is known as the Dunning-Kruger effect (Kruger and Dunning, 1999)”
― How to Take Smart Notes
― How to Take Smart Notes
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