Emma

“We can’t help clinging to our origins, Callum said. The past always seems more ordered, Rhodes. It always seems clearer, more straightforward, easier to understand. We have a craving for it, that sense of simplicity, but only an idiot would ever chase the past, because our perception of it is false—it was never that the world was simple. Just that in retrospect it could be known, and therefore understood.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Paradox

“There is a fine line between freedom and permission. The former is necessary. The latter is dangerous.”
― Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead

“There's nothing less sexy than a lack of ambition, is there?”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“You're just like me", she said softly in a maternal voice. "Scared. Young". My stomach sank. Those didn't sound like good things. "You'll survive, though", she continued. "We're the strong ones".”
― Jessica Goodman, They Wish They Were Us