Underneath the Sycamore Tree

by B. Celeste

“I find that the books with the saddest endings are the best because they make us feel. We don’t always get a happily ever after no matter how hard we work for it.”

carbs are my one true soul mate.

Pain comes in countless forms. The worst is seeing what your suffering does to everyone around you.

When people hear you’re sick, they have three reactions—they either pity you, refuse to come near you, or don’t believe you at all. None of those situations are worth my time, not the fake sympathy of people who pretend they understand what I go through, not the people who think I’m contagious and stay ten feet away, and certainly not the people who refuse to accept invisible diseases are a thing.

Reality is ugly and painful and full of the kind of heartache that some books help you forget exist for a short period.

There are lots of quotes about time. Time is fleeting. Time is valuable. Time shouldn’t be wasted. The trouble with time is that we only think we have it. It’s an illusion—an excuse to linger in existence. Some people use it to be reckless; others use it to hold themselves back.

It always takes longer to find something to watch than it does to actually watch it.

“You barely eat.” “You barely shut up,” I counter.

The truth is you never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.

If we spend all the time on the negative, we’ll be angry for the rest of our lives. Why let it consume us?”