“Travel makes existentialists of us all.”

“One of the many reasons I love libraries. Everyone is lost and not wanting to be found in a library.”

“Millions of pages cloaked in dust and inspiration and wisdom.”

“Denial has rented a room in my head and frequently stomps around slamming doors.”

“Sometimes the best thing about us isn’t what we’re gifted with, but what we can make others feel just by our very nature of existing.”

“Not the way he looks, but specifically the way he looks at me threatens my inhibitions. It’s all greedy yearning.”

“My dark secret is I’ve always wished I was Gatsby. As heartbroken as he was and as horrible a fate as he endured, I admired that he loved. It’s a difficult thing to do.”

“Right now in this space, I feel a brand new pull to him. I’ve always been drawn to his features, his brilliance, his laughter, his passion. But right now I’m attracted to his pain. It makes him human. It makes him real. It makes him something he hardly ever is to me: accessible.”

“Wars are won from a wink, a gesture, an event that transpired a millennium before the battle. Humanity has always been saved by small acts; the ones where someone gained a piece of their own puzzle, not the ones where a hero stood prodigious on a battlefield.”

“I know how it fees to plead. I know how it feels to wish someone would give you a chance to help them.”

“Rarely does the truth set us free. Usually it chains us to the earth like a ghost.”