"I have a secret. You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us out there, more than you think. People who refuse to stop believing. People who refuse to come to earth. People who love in a world without walls, people who love into hate, into refusal, against hope, and without fear."

"as soon as i look up, his eyes click on my face. the breath whooshes out of my body and everything freezes for a second, as though i'm looking at him through my camera lens, zoomed in all the way, the world pausing for that tiny span of time.."

“It´s so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it´s taking forever to come. Then it happens and it´s over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.”

“You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".”

"I know that life isn’t life if you just float through it. I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go." - Lena, Chapter 23

"I would rather die my way than live yours"

Love; it kills you both when you have it and when you don't