Robin

“No matter what heaven you believe in, your time on this earth will end. What I’m saying is that you should listen—really listen—to the slosh of the waves and the distant call of Pacific birds. You should feel a boy’s pulse against your cheek; you should fill your lungs with ocean air. While you can, I mean. You should do these things while you still can.”
― Emery Lord, When We Collided

“There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”
― Janet Frame

“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom