Claudia

“For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there’s nothing else. It’s here, and you’d better decide to enjoy it or you’re going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever. —Lev Grossman, The Magicians S”
― Erin Loechner, Chasing Slow: Courage to Journey Off the Beaten Path

“I held your head in my open hands and studied you like a book. From my fingertips to my elbow, that’s how small you were then. Birth, death. You only get one shot. Sailor, if I could have one wish granted, it would be to do it all over again. I do not want another baby, that is not what I’m trying to say. What I want is to do it all over again with you. Except this time getting it right.”
― Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

“Something bad happens to everyone at some point, even when it feels like you're the only one who bad stuff is happening to right now”
― Annie Hartnett

“Love has nothing to do with what you're looking at and everything to do with who's looking.”
― Jodi Picoult, Small Great Things