Gina

“Von da an schrieben wir uns jede Woche. Es war komisch, aber Schwarz auf Weiß fühlte sich alles klarer und erwachsener an. Als könnte ich manche Überlegungen schon ein, zwei Jahre früher pflücken und sehen, wie ich mal sein würde.”
― Benedict Wells, Hard Land

“Doch so komisch es klingt: Irgendwann hatten wir uns an die ungewisse Situation gewöhnt. Und zumindest nach außen schien alles normal. Innerlich aber warteten wir alle nur auf neue schlechte Nachrichten. Denn der Tod saß die ganze Zeit bei uns am Küchentisch, trank seinen Kaffee, blickte stumm auf die Uhr.”
― Benedict Wells, Hard Land

“Love is.... it's bringing an umbrella when rain is forecasted, but, like not for you. It's serenading someone off-key in the kitchen while they chop red peppers lenghtwise because they know you like them better that way. It's pulling the car in backward at night because your parner gets edgy when they have to back into morning traffic. It's buying moisturizer in bulk because one time they mentioned they liked the scent.
It's noticing things.Seeing parts of them even they might not know exist because you've been studying them since the moment you first laid eyes on them. It's memorizing their phone number even if you have it programmed because God forbid you ever lost your contacts. It's reading their mood by the song blaring through their headphones. It's experiencing something so extraordinary you can't tell if it was just that mind-blowing or if it's only because they were there with you that you were so affected by it.”
― Erin Hahn, More Than Maybe

“I am but paper. Brittle and thin. I am held up to the sun, and it shines right through me. I get written on, and I can never be used again. These scratches are a history. They’re a story. They tell things for others to read, but they only see the words, and not what the words are written upon. I am but paper, and though there are many like me, none are exactly the same. I am parched parchment. I have lines. I have holes. Get me wet, and I melt. Light me on fire, and I burn. Take me in hardened hands, and I crumple. I tear. I am but paper. Brittle and thin.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea