Ari

“Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can't believe that ours didn't go on forever.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

“To be named is to submit. My name is the vastness of the waters of chaos. My name is the height of the Tree of All Seeds. My name is the cosmic mountain that reaches out of this sphere and into the next. A pause, then: That is to say, should you wish to bestow upon me a name of your choice, I will accept it as a proxy.”
― Terry J. Benton-Walker, The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power

“My Last Message would be to find your people. And to treat each day like a lifetime.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside.”
― Audre Lorde