Hazel Grace

“It has nothing to do with not trusting you. It’s to do with what something becomes once you tell it. It’s like it’s truer. And it’s got a life of its own and it rushes out into the world and becomes something you can’t control.”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“Anxiety is a feeling grown too large. A feeling grown aggressive and dangerous. You’re responsible for its consequences, you’re responsible for treating it. But Michael, you’re not responsible for causing it.”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“I kept thinking, in another life, if I made different choices, it could be you and me instead.”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“Blink and you’re twenty-eight, and everyone else is now a mile down the road, and you’re still trying to find it, and the irony is hardly lost on you that in wanting to live, to learn, to find yourself, you’ve gotten lost.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue