"to suffer is as human as to breathe"

“She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, that strange happiness that was sometimes so big that it felt like sadness.”

“Then perhaps we should carve a world one day where the strength lies in who you are, rather than in what they expect you to be.”

“A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.” —Patrick Ness, More Than This