30 Quotes by Marina Keegan

I'm trying to figure out if I love art enough to be poor.

My father used to tease me at the table by implying that “cold Claire” had brought in the draft. I had three older sisters, all beautiful, and I was always less affected than them, slow to smile. I remember finding it extremely hard to open presents as a child because the requisite theatricality was too exhausting. My sisters forever humiliated me over a moment in fifth grade when I’d opened a present from my grandmother and declared, straight-faced, “I already have this.

We can’t, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it’s all we have.

What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over.

I will live for love and the rest will take care of itself.

Let’s make something happen to this world.

I worry sometimes that humans are afraid of helping humans. There’s less risk associated with animals, less fear of failure, fear of getting to involved.

We don’t have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that’s what I want in life.

The middle of the universe is tonight, is here, And everything behind is a sunk cost.