What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?
Paola Garduñohas quoted3 years ago
There is a freedom, after all, in being forgotten
charlreadshas quotedlast year
Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives—or to find strength in a very long one.
reemooooohas quoted3 years ago
“But isn’t it wonderful,” she says, “to be an idea?”
Amapolahas quoted9 hours ago
. Aut viam invenium aut faciam, and so on.”
She does not know Latin yet, and he does not offer a translation, but a decade from now, she will look up the words, and learn their meaning.
To find a way, or make your own.
Amapolahas quoted10 hours ago
Live long enough, and you learn how to read a person. To ease them open like a book, some passages underlined and others hidden between the lines
Amapolahas quoted10 hours ago
It’s less hostile than suspicion, more guarded than relief, and it is still wonderful, because of the knowing in it
Amapolahas quoted12 hours ago
You know,” she’d said, “they say people are like snowflakes, each one unique, but I think they’re more like skies. Some are cloudy, some are stormy, some are clear, but no two are ever quite the same.”
Amapolahas quoted3 days ago
His parents meant well, of course, but they always told him things like Cheer up, or It will get better, or worse, It’s not that bad, which is easy to say when you’ve never had a day of rain.