Shadow

“When I meet a European, the first thing I say is, “I’d much rather watch football than football.” But I’m just teasing them, and they know I’d really rather watch football than football.”
― Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.

“I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

“I don't cut deep-I don't want to kill the tree. I carve her name carefully on the trunk, thinking, as I always do, of when I held her hand in mine to teach her to write.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“They say you should always teach a person’s name first. That way, even if they never learn to write anything else, they’ll always have something.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed