Everything, Everything

by Nicola Yoon

here’s a game. fast five favorites. book word color vice person

“Respect. It’s Mother Nature at her finest—awesome, beautiful, impersonal, murderous.

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

I might not be in love, but I’m in like. I’m in serious like.

This is why people touch. Sometimes words are just not enough.

IT’S A STRANGE thing to realize that you’re willing to die. It doesn’t come in a flash, a sudden epiphany. It happens slowly, a balloon leak in reverse.

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

Loving someone as fiercely as my mom loves me must be like wearing your heart outside of your body with no skin, no bones, no nothing to protect it.

But it’s never just one moment. It’s a series of them. And your life can branch out from each one in a thousand different ways. Maybe there’s a version of your life for all the choices you make and all the choices you don’t.