

“I don鈥檛 know if I will have the time to write any more letters, because I might be too busy trying to participate. So, if this does end up being the last letter, I just want you to know that I was in a bad place before I started high school, and you helped me. Even if you didn鈥檛 know what I was talking about, or know someone who鈥檚 gone through it, you made me not feel alone. Because I know there are people who say all these things don鈥檛 happen. And there are people who forget what it鈥檚 like to be sixteen when they turn seventeen. I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all become somebody鈥檚 mom or dad. But right now, these moments are not stories. This is happening. I am here, and I am looking at her. And she is so beautiful. I can see it. This one moment when you know you鈥檙e not a sad story. You are alive. And you stand up and see the lights on the buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And you鈥檙e listening to that song, and that drive with the people who you love most in this world. And in this moment, I swear, we are infinite.”
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“For reasons unexplained, every person in the world is born with a large gaping hole in the center of their chest...while not uncomfortable, it is widely considered unsightly, and pretty much everyone tries to fill it with something...some people fill it with religion, others just buy a bunch of stuff, and some even fill it with other folks...I left mine alone, though, because I found out if you run against the wind at just the right angle, it makes a whistling noise.”
― The Distinctly Essential Dresden Codak Primer
― The Distinctly Essential Dresden Codak Primer

“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
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