Kaley > Kaley's Quotes

“Do you remember you once told me that you felt as if you had spent your whole life running? I understood exactly what you meant, I had done the same thing. I had run alone, just as you had. But during those years it felt as if we were running together. It felt as if we were running towards home.”
― Therese Bohman, Andromeda

“Here is the nature of life, we must love things with our whole selves knowing they will die.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore

“Grief is a relationship... it's the way we figure out how to keep loving them even though they're gone. And in order to do that we have to keep going. And going and going.”
― Cara Bastone, Promise Me Sunshine

“And this journey through grief... It's what we do for the great loves of our lives.”
― Cara Bastone, Promise Me Sunshine

“Part of taking care of the people you love is taking care of yourself, right?”
― Cara Bastone, Promise Me Sunshine

“...happily sobbing because life is so funking hard and sometimes, every once in a while, you get a win.”
― Cara Bastone, Promise Me Sunshine

“But as a friend once told me, “Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“People who are treated as less than fully human by the social order are more susceptible to tuberculosis but it’s not because of their moral codes or choices or genetics, it’s because they are treated as less than fully human by the social order.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“TB in the twenty-first century is not really caused by a bacteria that we know how to kill. TB in the twenty-first century is really caused by those social determinants of health, which at their core are about human-built systems for extracting and allocating resources. The real cause of contemporary tuberculosis, is for lack of a better term, us.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“There is nothing more beautiful than being a witness to someone’s life. To know them inside and out and be with them through everything, share the same memories. Memories are everything. I want that.”
― Abby Jimenez, Say You'll Remember Me

“She couldn’t make more memories with me. But I could still make memories with her. I would be a witness to her life, even though she was done witnessing mine.”
― Abby Jimenez, Say You'll Remember Me

“Having your shit together is not a prerequisite for love.”
― London Sperry, Passion Project

“Well, we are the stars", Joan said. "And the stars are us. Every atom in our bodies was once out there. Was once a part of them. To look at the night sky is to look at pars of who you once were, who you may one day be.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“Life is a near-death experience. And death is a real-life one.
You just want to wake up while you still can. While the world is turning and the owls are calling and gratitude is the very air you are still breathing, because, whatever happens next, that's how lucky you are.
You are still breathing.”
― Catherine Newman, Wreck