Kat

“Love and cities are always inextricably entwined. There's no restaurant or corner store or run-down dive in any city that doesn't double as a monument for a lost love. I think that's why we always stop and stare whenever we come across a girl crying in public. We sense the imprint of a memory being pressed onto the sidewalk, onto the building contours, onto the names of the streets.”
― Jay Caspian Kang, The Dead Do Not Improve

“That's the worst thing about teaching, that our actions either have no force at all or have force beyond all intention, and not only our actions but our failures to act, gestures and words held back or unspoken, all we might have done and failed to do; and, more than this, that the consequences echo across years and silence, we can never really know what we've done.”
― Garth Greenwell, Cleanness

“From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“The days are long, but the years are short.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project