becca

“That's amazing that you can do that."

"What?" I asked.

"Just, you know, make music by touching something."

You can do it too, I thought, remembering how the rhythm of my heart had changed when she'd wrapped her arm around mine.”
― Syed M. Masood, More Than Just a Pretty Face

“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“When you spend your whole life alone, it's incredibly appealing to move somewhere big enough to get lost in. Where being alone looks like a choice.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

“But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are too poor to escape the reality of their lives; and they are too poor to live properly in the place where they live, which is the very place you, the tourist, want to go--so when the natives see you, the tourist, they envy you, they envy your ability to leave your own banality and boredom, they enjoy your ability to turn their own banality and boredom into a source of pleasure for yourself.”
― Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place