"I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have."
Stephen Chbosky, The perks of being a wallflower
"Cherie, keep walking. Shut your eyes. We are headed for the bridge. We are going to cross it."
-Joyce Carol Oates, After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away
"You're not being asked to come up with something pretty, you know. No one gives a damn about pretty."
-Anna Gavalda, Hunting and Gathering
Just finished this book, needless to say, I cried -a lot.
"But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail."
-John Green, Looking for Alaska