"One day, I will be on the podium, counting the BPM of a laugh track, lighting up my zyrtec with a weak flame & weaker heresy. It'll be very impressive. If only this, God, if only this."

• Retrospect: Ars Poetica. Jaiden Geolingo

"Someday, I will write no journals, only grocery lists. I will live on that hill everyone keeps dying on. My mother has loved Spain as long as I have been holding my breath. It has been so long and so long."

• Andalusia, 2009. Kaylee Jeong

"In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars will be laughing when you look at the sky at night.. You, only you, will have stars that can laugh!"

• The Little Prince. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry