#notebook quotes

Ehe I did this a while ago and it’s definitely not my best (why did my handwriting change so much uwu). It’s a lovely excerpt though, isn’t it?

One of my favorite sections from this book! It reminds me of those moments before quarantine hit where my friends and I were hanging out together, young and happy and free, living in a world where bad things were never permanent or unfixable. We felt absolutely unstoppable...infinite if you will.

Another TFIOS post because this book just has so many quotable lines 😅

Sometimes life doesn’t go the way we want it to go *cough* *cough* (omg I just realized how accidentally bad of a joke that was I’m so sorry but now I can’t bear to remove it) and we blame ourselves again and again and again, trying to find where we made that crucial irreversible mistake.

But sometimes...the mistake wasn’t ours to make. I hate that almost as much as knowing it *was* actually my fault. I hate the feeling that I have no control over my fate, my destiny and yet...it can be oddly freeing. It encourages me to live life to the fullest every day *because* I don’t know what lies ahead (putting that into practice is a different story though ehe).

Regret is a heavier burden to bear than powerlessness I think. I’m sure Hazel Grace and Augustus didn’t think that as they raged at the stars for the life they didn’t have. But in the end, wouldn’t you rather rage at the world than rage at yourself? That doesn’t mean it’s easy to accept our inability to control everything that happens to us, but it helps. It really helps.

I’m not sure where the direction of this entire rant went but we’re just gonna roll with it.

...ya think? XD

A pamphlet from a completely different crisis (the American Revolution) hundreds of years ago but I’m sure this line is relatable to nearly everyone right now. I’m not sure how much more soul-trying I can handle though :/

Amidst the chaos of 2020, I’ve started to see historical events differently. It’s deceptively easy to view them as brief occurrences in somebody’s life since we study it that way- consolidating decades into a few general characteristics and phrases. But history from the first person is truly eye-opening as one realizes just how complicated the events of one year can be...

I’ve grown to appreciate the intricacies of history too, rather than merely an overview. A single year is a remarkably complex story in itself. In the grand scale of time, the past 8 months and counting are negligible, hardly a speck on the abyssal plain. But to the individual, every day brings new challenges in an ongoing battle for survival where the enemy is a shapeshifting hydra - circumstances change rapidly but the problems are infinite and relentless. Countless lives have been irrevocably altered by this pandemic, and undoubted many more will be if they have avoided its grasp so far.

Innumerable major events have happened this year, but in the end...which ones will even make it to the history textbook? Warrant a passing mention, if any mention at all?