memories & quotes from my travels through the written wor(l)d

content featured will be subjectively poignant, silly, or just plain relatable

[kaysbookpassport]

"Do you believe in love?" "Yes. Always have. I believe in its expression - its many forms. It's a universal form that shouldn't be limited - especially not by people. We have enough crap to fix and deal with. If anything, more love would solve a lot of these problems."

~Sophie Go's Lonely Hearts Club - Roselle Lim~

[kaysbookpassport]

"One of the most human things about anxiety is that we try to cure chaos with chaos. Someone who has got themselves into a castastrophic situation rarely retreats from it, we're far more inclined to carry on even faster."

~Anxious People - Fredrik Backman~

[kaysbookpassport]

"Your partner shouldn't complete you. Everyone is an entire person all on their own, and you don't need someone else to make you whole. But sometimes you know what the world is supposed to be so absolutely that when it changes without your consent, the absence of the people you've chosen as your own can be a gaping wound."

~Spelunking Through Hell - Seanan McGuire~

[kaysbookpassport]

"Let the past buoy you, not drag you down. And while the SATs are behind you, don't put down that number two pencil just yet. You may be tempted to write your life plan in pen, but use pencil. Give yourself the freedom to erase and make changes."

~The Most Likely Club - Elyssa Friedland ~

[kaysbookpassport]

"When you're a child you long to be an adult and decide everything for yourself, but when you're an adult you realize that's the worst part of it. That you have to have opinions all the time, you have to decide which party to vote for and what wallpaper you like and what your sexual preferences are and which flavor yogurt best reflects your personality."

~Anxious People - Fredrik Backman~

[kaysbookpassport]

"The problem with human connections stemmed from the false assumption that finding friendships should be easy - that with the number of people on this planet, stumbling into meaningful relationships was a statistical guarantee."

~Sophie Go's Lonely Hearts Club - Roselle Lim~

[kaysbookpassport]

"I'd say that a panic attack is when psychological pain becomes so strong that it manifests itself physically. The anxiety becomes so acute that the brain can't... well, in the absence of any better words, I'd say that the brain doesn't have sufficient bandwidth to process all the information. The firewall collapses, so to speak. And anxiety overwhelms us."

~Anxious People - Fredrik Backman~

[kaysbookpassport]

"This world throws all kinds of obstacles at us, we are forced to endure so much that is absurd. Our best weapon for fighting all the pain and trouble in the world isn't logic or violence. It's humor."

~The Cat Who Saved Books - Sōsuke Natsukawa~

[kaysbookpassport]

"By the time I arrived I was almost as battered as the takoyaki I'd be having for dinner."

~Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun - Chris Broad~

[kaysbookpassport]

"But roses, like you and I, have their issues. Roses planted in soil that has grown roses for a number of years are prone to a disease known as rose sickness. If you plant new roses in this situation, you must take out as much of the old soil as possible and replace it with fresh soil from another part of the garden which hasn’t grown roses before. This makes me think of Mr. Malone, trying to grow in exactly the same place as his wife has died. It makes me think of anyone who is trying to grow where something, even a part of themselves, has died. We all experience that sickness. It is better to move, uproot ourselves and start afresh; then we will flourish."

~The Year I Met You - Cecelia Ahern~

[kaysbookpassport]

“Once again, I don’t quite know where I’m headed. It seems that every few years I’m shoveling up the pieces of my life and starting from scratch all over. No matter what I do or how hard I try I can’t seem to reach the dizzy heights of happiness, success, and security, like so many people do. And I’m not talking about becoming a millionaire and living happily ever after. I mean just reaching a point in my life that I can stop what I’m doing, take a look around me, breathe a sigh of relief, and think ‘I’m where I want to be.’ “

~Where Rainbows End - Cecelia Ahern~

[kaysbookpassport]

"People are what bother me most in life. It bothers me that so many lack common sense, that their opinions can be so biased and backward, so utterly frustrating, misguided, misinformed and dangerous that I can’t stand to listen to them. I’m not pointlessly prickly. I like non-PC jokes in controlled environments where it is appropriate and when it is so obvious that the joke is at the expense of the ignorant who say such things. When a non-PC punchline is delivered by someone who genuinely believes it to be true, it is not funny, it is offensive."

~The Year I Met You - Cecelia Ahern~

[kaysbookpassport]

I have momentarily rambled off the road of reason to find a bush to pee behind but I will soon find my way back again."

~ Where Rainbows End - Cecelia Ahern~

[kaysbookpassport]

"Turns out, ignorance often comes with an exciting, unexpected side effect: cruelty. To people who think they’re the best the world has to offer, kindness is an afterthought and an unnecessary one at that."

~Tricks For Free - Seanan McGuire~

[kaysbookpassport]

"We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our soul needs to learn, the path presents itself. Sometimes we see the way out but wander farther and deeper despite ourselves; the fear, the anger, or the sadness preventing us from returning. Sometimes we prefer to be lost and wandering; sometimes it’s easier. Sometimes we find our own way out. But regardless, always, we are found."

~ There’s No Place Like Here - Cecelia Ahern~

[kaysbookpassport]

"Like a junkie, I was jonesing for a romance novel coupling. I needed a pulsating pillar of passion, a mammoth male member, a cocky cobra ready to tangle with my vaginal mongoose."

~Screwdrivered - Alice Clayton~

[kaysbookpassport]

"Hearts are resilient. They can heal over and over again. That’s the good part. The bad part is that having a resilient heart means it can be broken so many times that it feels like it should never recover, like it should be nothing but a pile of shards in my chest."

~Night & Silence - Seanan McGuire~