34 Quotes by Ali Benjamin

When you believe in your own ability to do something, even something scary, it gives you an almost magic power. Confidence is magic. It can carry you through everything.

Somehow, that fact – that sometimes things do just happen – seemed like it might be the scariest and saddest truth of all.

We walked the rest of the way to math class in silence, but it was the best kind of silence. It was the not-talking kind of silence, the kind that so few people seemed to understand.” -Suzy.

In the end Suzanne, it’s a gift to spend time with people we care about. Even if it’s imperfect. Even if that time doesn’t end when, or how, we expected. Even when that person leaves us.

Did you know that the light from our nearest star takes four years to reach us? Which means when we see it- when we see any star- we are really seeing what it looks like in the past. All those twinkling lights, every star in the sky, could have burned out years ago- the entire sky could be empty this very minute, and we wouldn’t even know it.

Who knows. Maybe everybody’s end isn’t the day they actually die, but the last time anyone speaks of them. Maybe when you die you don’t really disappear, but you fade into a shadow, dark and featureless, only your outlines visible.

The staying and not-knowing and being afraid: That was worse than anything else that might have happened.