Everything, Everything

by Nicola Yoon

“Just because you can’t experience everything doesn’t mean you shouldn’t experience anything.

“You have enough things to be afraid of. Love can’t kill you.”

In two weeks my skin will have no memory of Olly’s hand on mine, but my brain will remember. We can have immortality or the memory of touch. But we can’t have both.

Sometimes you do things for the right reasons and sometimes for the wrong ones and sometimes it’s impossible to tell the difference.

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

“You’re not living if you’re not regretting.”