Jasmine

“Look up long enough and you start to feel your infinitesimality. The difference between alive and not--that's something. But from where the stars are watching, there is almost no difference between varieties of alive, between me and the newly mown grass I'm lying on right now. We are both astonishments, the closest thing in the know universe to a miracle.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Or as if all the world’s diamonds, that the diamond companies hide in order to keep prices up, had been abruptly dumped out and scattered recklessly all over.”
― Kenji Miyazawa, Milky Way Railroad

“We’re standing among the heavens, we’re sitting within the phosphorescent flame of a star. Our fondest wish has been granted… Oh, Santa Maria!”
― Kenji Miyazawa, Night on the Galactic Railroad and Other Stories from Ihatov

“Perhaps, he thought, we should all live as if we’re dying.”
― Jan Karon, At Home in Mitford