“Are you okay?” he asked.
“Yeah—why wouldn’t I be okay?”
“Are you serious, Belle? Were you not aware of what that sick old man was trying to do?” He shook his head, seething. “You are lucky I was on that roof all day. That old man…he was trying to sell you a Sega product.”
…
We were quiet for a moment.
“Promise me you’ll never walk out in these streets alone again, Belle.” His face contorted in fitful rage. Suddenly, he rolled down his window and shouted, “She plays Nintendo!” He inhaled deeply. “Play Nintendo,” he breathed out. “I won’t always be here to keep you from Sega.”
— Nightlight (The Harvard Lampoon) ♥
(Source: hellogiggles)
(Source: harrypottersection)
“
“Things could change, Gabe,” Jonas went on. “Things could be different. I don’t know how, but there must be some way for things to be different. There could be colors.
“And grandparents,” he added. “And everybody would have the memories.”
“Gabe?”
The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him.
“There could be love,” Jonas whispered.
” — The Giver - Lois Lowry
Did you ever have the world at your feet and have it taken away from you the second later?
“On the outside, you know you’re not that same naive kid anymore. You’ve been through too much too fast, but deep down, at your core, there will always be a part of you that rejects reality, that is eternally hopeful.” —
(Source: poeticheartache)
“She wants to know if I love her, that’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.” —
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
(Source: quote-book)
