Hailey

“But the things that make other people nervous have never scared me. I’m not afraid of men in golf carts or horror movies or roller coasters. I didn’t know precisely what I was afraid of, but it wasn’t this.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“I have to push the sadness I feel about Grace and Rosemary and forgetful old women deep into the grottoes of my stomach, next to my thoughts about cats in house fires, because this is what it means to exist. This is how people stay alive.”
― Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

“I wonder if this is specific to me, or if everyone feels this way at a certain point. Are we all just sitting around pretending to be normal? Pretending not to go through a thousand different emotions in the span of half an hour? I really can’t be the only one feeling this way. I mean, I doubt I can be. I hope I can’t be.”
― Andrea Portes, This Is Not a Ghost Story

“What was my part in this play? The Sidekick. I was Daisy’s Friend, or Ms. Holmes’s Daughter. I was somebody’s something.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down