" Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It`s always there, though. "
- Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot (via daydreamdelusion)
" If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask… With nothing beneath it? "
- Nineteen Minutes
" As the sun rose lazily above London, he kissed her on Albert Bridge. She was filled with an inexplicable burst of joy, although it could have been the champagne. "
- Sophie Dahl, The Man With The Dancing Eyes
" When adults say, ‘Teenagers think they are invincible’ with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail. "
- John Green, Looking for Alaska
Looking for Alibrandi
“I want to know him in ten years time,” I cried. “But I don’t want to go to his funeral. What am I going to do, Michael? What are we all going to do?”
“You’re going to go on living. Because living is the challenge, Josie. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that lifetime, whether it’s giving birth to a baby or being a housewife or a barrister or a soldier. You’ve accomplished something. To throw that away at such a young age, to have no hope, is the biggest tragedy.”
