✨Veruca✨

“I don’t want to die,” A.J. says after a bit. “I just find it difficult to be here all the time.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“To separate how you are seen from who you are sometimes feels nigh impossible.”
― Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

“The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.
My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart.
We are not quite novels.
The analogy he is looking for is almost there.
We are not quite short stories. At this point, his life is seeming closest to that.
In the end, we are collected works.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“We aren’t the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry