Everything, Everything

by Nicola Yoon

“Everything’s a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It’s up to you.”

“Everyone’s a snowflake, right? We’re all unique and complicated. We can never know the human heart, and all that?”

“It means you can do every goddamn thing right, and your life can still turn to shit.”

There are entire worlds that exist just beneath our notice of them.

I was happy before I met him. But I’m alive now, and those are not the same thing.

“Maybe growing up means disappointing the people we love.”