"you have your whole life ahead of you. don't be afraid to make mistakes. a lot of times what feels like a mistake in the moment, one year, two years, ten years later, turns out not to have been a mistake at all" - A field guide for Heartbreakers

"he did like you - he's just messed up. Just because a relationship doesn't work doesn't mean it's your fault. it's not always about you. sometimes it's about them. if somebody is broken, that person isn't capable of adequately accepting or returning love." - A field guide for Heartbreakers

"If people were like rain, then I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane." - Looking for Alaska

"What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous." - Looking for Alaska

"That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours. ” ― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“someone once told me first impressions are everything. conversations are the rest.” - Conversations Between Us