Marina Keegan, The Opposite Of Loneliness: Essays And Stories Quotes

I feel like we can do something really cool to this world. And I fear - at twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five - we might forget.

Aging is harder for beautiful people, and Anna was beautiful.

They try to fight the waves, but they can’t fight the moon. They can’t fight the world’s rotation or the bathymetry of oceans or the inevitability that sometimes things just don’t work out.

When the moon gets bored, it kills whales. Blue whales and fin whales and humpback, sperm, and orca whales: centrifugal forces don’t discriminate.

I saw everything in the world build up and then everything in the world fall down again.

We're so young. We can't, we MUST not loose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.