dear today, i spend all of you pretending i'm okay when i'm... - Nina LaCour, Hold Still

"It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once."

"It isn't the happy ending Ingrid and I had dreamed up, but it's all a part of what I'm working through. The way life changes. The way people and things disappear. Then appear, unexpectedly, and hold you close."

"He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much."

"I’ll make a swing so I can reach the places I can’t reach yet."

"You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons."