debra

“She is oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. The same elements that are inside the rest of us, but I can’t help thinking she’s more than that and she’s got other elements going on that no one’s ever heard of, ones that make her stand apart from everybody else. I feel this brief panic as I think, What would happen if one of those elements malfunctioned or just stopped working altogether? I make myself push this aside and concentrate on the feel of her skin until I no longer see molecules but Violet.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“We were the coolest people in McDonald's. We had a lot going for us. We'd found the secret glue that held all things together. We were young and beautiful. We were married now. We were about to go home, get out of our monkey suits, get naked, and get wasted.”
― Luke Davies, Candy

“It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“I also hate people to ask cheerfully how you are when they know you're feeling like hell and expect you to say "fine”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar