How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

Life isn't life if you just float through it.

Don't worry about what you're writing or whether it's good or even whether it makes sense.

At a certain point your brain stops to rationalize things. At a certain point it gives up, shuts off, shuts down.

I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now." "Don't worry," Will said. "We'll figure something out." Liesl managed to smile at him. She liked that word: *we*. It sounded warm and open, like a hug.

This is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot.