Vicki

“For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“And I feel certain there must be a second set of laws, inscrutable but real, that governs exactly how much a particular individual can give to and receive from another. Some hydrology of human generosity. Because there are these gifts we can make to one another freely, reflexively, with no sting of loss; and there are gifts we fight to relinquish, beg to get.”
― Karen Russell, Sleep Donation

“Toddling with pants down into our uncertain future.”
― Kayla Rae Whitaker, The Animators

“And I want to be happy. Like, seventy to eighty percent of the time. I want to be actively, thoughtfully happy.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline