Maria

“I told myself – as I’ve told myself before – that the body shuts down when the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is temporary, that this will pass. But just like always, I didn’t slip away. I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“There's a line from Heraclitus: No man steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.”
― Tom Rachman, The Imperfectionists

“The circumstances of life-the events of life-the people around me in life-do not make me the way I am. They reveal the way I am.”
― Dan Chaon, Await Your Reply

“Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.”
― Chris Bohjalian