Jessa

“Love is an elusive, unrealistic, foreign concept. I know some people feel it and it's not thet I'm hardened. I'm an optimist, but first and foremost, I'm a realist. My life will not follow fairytale, and that's okay. My life is reality. And in my reality people don't fall in love and get married and live happily ever after, because life is complicated, and messy.”
― Kim Holden Bright Side

“Have you ever met someone who’s content and happy to her core? And when you’re around her it’s … contagious? Like you want to be a better person just so you feel worthy of being in that person’s life?”
― Kim Holden, Bright Side

“Everyone’s pain is different,” Reece went on. “I don’t like when people compare. I don’t like when people marginalize their feelings because they think they’re not allowed to have them. Someone will always have a tougher go than you. Does that mean you’re not allowed to feel hurt? To be sad?”
He kissed my forehead and walked to the shed. Or what was left of it.”
― S. Walden

“Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement, There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for plannning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future--you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.”
― John Green, Paper Towns