Marina Keegan Quotes
What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over.
Do you wanna leave soon? No, I want enough time to be in love with everything... And I cry because everything is so beautiful and so short.
We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life.
We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.
I worry sometimes that humans are afraid of helping humans. There's less risk associated with animals, less fear of failure, fear of getting to involved.
We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I feel like that's okay.
I plan on having parties when I’m 30. I plan on having fun when I’m old. Any notion of THE BEST years comes from clichéd ‘should haves ‘if I’d’ ‘wish I’d’
We're so young. We can't, we MUST not loose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.
I saw everything in the world build up and then everything in the world fall down again.
When the moon gets bored, it kills whales. Blue whales and fin whales and humpback, sperm, and orca whales: centrifugal forces don’t discriminate.
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.
Aging is harder for beautiful people, and Anna was beautiful.
and something about the stillness or my state of mind reminded me of the world's remarkable capacity to carry on in every place at once.
I figured I wasn't supposed to be capable of that kind of thinking, and I felt like an alien. I feel that a lot, actually, in a lot of circumstances. Like I ought to be feeling something I don't.
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.
