Alex

“Survival is insufficient.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“Créer, c'est vivre deux fois.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“what am i to you he asks
i put my hands in his lap
and whisper you
are every hope
i've ever had
in human form”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“wind picks up a little more (Terribly sorry, I imagine it saying; apparently, the wind is British, wondering how it got all the way over here) and Henna has to snap her hand down on a page of an assignment that’s threatening to fly away. “Why do we even have paper anymore?” “Books,” Jared says. “Toilet paper,” Mel says. “Because paper is a thing,” I say, “and sometimes you need things rather than just thoughts.”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here