Rae

“It was interesting to think of the arbitrary points at which one person collides with another, of the expanse of potential experience that is opened up to you when you meet someone to whom, for whatever reason, you are drawn.”
― Naomi Xu Elegant, Gingko Season

“People say that love is rare. I am not so sure. What is rare is something even more desirable. Understanding. There is no point in being loved if you are not understood. They are simply loving an idea of you they have in their mind. They are in love with love. They are in love with their loving. To be understood. And not only that, but to be understood and appreciated once understood. That is what matters.”
― Matt Haig, The Life Impossible

“one can love many places and still miss home.”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 8

“Why must we treat what are obviously systemic problems as failures of individual morality?”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection