For One More Day

And being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. 

So I tried to. 

It's not so much, what's the point? It's more like what's the difference? 

~Mitch Albom

For One More Day

All that happens when your dream comes true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought. 

And it won't save you. 

~Mitch Albom

For One More Day

This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might call it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone. 

~Mitch Albom

The Stanger

He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man. Whereas it looked as if I was the one who'd come up empty handed. But I was sure about me, about everything, surer than he could ever be, sure of my life and sure of the death I had waiting for me. Yes, that was all I had. But at least I had as much of a hold on it as it had on me...It was as if I had waited all this time for this moment and for the first light of this dawn to be vindicated. Nothing, nothing mattered, and I knew why. So did he...What did other people's deaths or a mother's love matter to me; what did his God or the lives people choose or the fate they think they elect matter to me when we're all elected by the same fate, me and billions of privileged people like him who also call themselves my brothers? Everybody was privileged.

~Albert Camus

The Stranger

And during the summations by the prosecutor and my lawyer, there was a lot said about me, maybe more about me than about my crime. 

~Albert Camus

Before I Fall

This is pretty much the answer to every problem you encounter in suburbia: plant a tree, and hope you don't see anyone's privates. 

~Lauren Oliver