The whole pleasure of being in a state of unknowing is that as long as you don’t know, all possible outcomes feel as if they are happening.

He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four.

he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with. i have to believe that’s a sign.

All representations of a thing are inherently abstract.

My love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity, ~ Hazel Lancaster.