L'Éternité et Aprés

IX. Current Favourites

"You say you're not special

because the world doesn't know about you,

but that's an insult to me.

I know about you."

— John Green, TFIOS

"She was like the moon—part of her always hidden away."

— Dia Reeves, Bleeding Violet

"Then one day you look in the rearview mirror of your existence

and realize that you can see clear down the hill-less

and curveless and bridgeless road of your life,

straight to the maernity ward where you were born.

And then you go to college.

Where your bland past meekly follows,

sluggishly scraping its feet on the floor."

— Sloane Corsley, I Was Told There'd Be Cake

“Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end.

And although this is the way all stories unfold,

I still can't believe that ours didn't go on forever."

— Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

"What I need is the dandelion in the spring.

The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction.

The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses.

That it can be good again."

— Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

"I am half agony, half hope..."

— Jane Austen, Persuasion

"“I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do.

Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die."

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it?

It makes you so vulnerable.

It opens your chest and it opens up your heart

and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."

— Neil Gaiman, The Kindly Ones

"When you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave."

— Neil Gaiman, Coraline [one of my fave movies<3]

“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion.

No one is entitled to be ignorant.”

— Harlan Ellison, Dangerous Visions