Julie

“She peels an orange, separates it in perfect halves, and gives one of them to me. If I could wear it like a friendship bracelet, I would. Instead I swallow it section by section and tell myself it means even more this way. To chew and to swallow in silence here with her. To taste the same thing in the same moment.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“I want our life to be like a house with all the windows lit.”
― Edith Wharton, The Reef

“You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky