Jackie Baumgartner

“I wanted to tell her that I was getting better, because that was supposed to be the narrative of illness: It was a hurdle you jumped over, or a battle you won. Illness is a story told in the past tense.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Actually, the problem is that I can’t lose my mind,” I said. “It’s inescapable.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Here they sat at memory's table, in the company of the living and the dead.”
― Vilhelm Moberg

“If there was no change, there would be no universe.”
― Paulo Coelho, Hippie