Spoiler alert: Love is worth everything. Everything.

Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it.

seriously. “Just because you can’t experience everything doesn’t mean you shouldn’t experience anything.-Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

In my head I know I've been in love before, but it doesn't feel like it. Being in love with you is better than the first time. It feels like the first time and the last time and the only time all at once.

For the first time in a long time, I want more than I have.

maybe part of falling in love with someone else is also falling in love with yourself

What are we talking about again?” he asks.I say science at the same time that he says love, and we both laugh.“What are the ingredients?” he prompts me again.“Mutual self-interest and socioeconomic compatibility.”“Do you even have a soul?”“No such thing as a soul,” I say.

Did your parents care that he was white?""They never met him." I couldn't imagine taking him to meet my dad. Watching them talk to each other would've been tortuous. Also, I never wanted him to see how small our apartment was. In the end, I guess I really didn't want him to know me.With Daniel, it's different somehow. I want him to see all of me.

לפני כמה ימים, כשנועצתי בפלנטריום, כל כך התאמצתי למצוא רגע מפנה שהכווין את כל החיים שלי. רגע שיענה על השאלה, איך הגעתי לכאן? אבל זה אף פעם לא רגע אחד בלבד. זאת סדרה של רגעים. והחיים יכולים להסתעף מכל אחד מהם אלף כיוונים שונים. אולי יש גרסה של החיים שלך לכל אחת מהבחירות שאת עושה, לכל הבחירות שאת לא עושה.