"I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?"
- Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

I'm Philippa, 24, and I'm from London.

~ Wednesday, May 9 ~
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“ It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off down the same road you always take and wind up somewhere new. Just one false step, one pause, one detour, and you end up with new friends or a bad reputation or a boyfriend or a breakup. It’s never occurred to me before; I’ve never been able to see it. And it makes me feel, weirdly, like maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
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~ Monday, May 7 ~
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“ I’ve never really thought about it before, but it’s a miracle how many different kinds of light there are in the world, how many skies: the pale brightness of spring, when it feels like the whole world is blushing; the lush, bright boldness of a July noon; purple storm skies and a green queasiness just before lightning strikes and crazy multicoloured sunsets that look like someone’s acid trip.
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
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~ Sunday, January 29 ~
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“ Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and as beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind.
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Lauren Oliver, Delirium

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~ Saturday, January 28 ~
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“ Time jumps. It leaps. It pours away like water through fingers.
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium
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