Quote by Norman Maclean

“...they were too young then to know what they would ultimately need from a barren and heart-sore life...”

— Frank O'Hara

“They had survived, when so many had not. And no one ­else could understand what it was like to bear it, unless they had…

— Sarah J. Maas

“From all these friends, I could not escape learning some of the statistics that I preferred not to know. Forty-one people at the mall…

— Dean Koontz

“The situation was terrible, of course. But the universe could still be so beautiful.”

— Daniel Suarez

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

— Marina Keegan

“He could not even take comfort in knowing that he had spent most of his adult life in dread of calamities had not materialized,…

— J.K. Rowling

“They were a bit shaken, and sometimes a little dispirited. But at least they never lived to know that everything they’d believed in was…

— George Orwell

“Because that was the thing about tragedies; they don't give you a second chance.”

— Alexandria Rhodes

“To die old with a young mind is such a tragedy. Naiveness was never a blessing.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“What sense the universe had made to them had disappeared with my words, and they were unsure of how to fit what they’d heard…

— Ann Leckie

“Since I was a kid, I’d held an unshakeable belief that if a person wanted something bad enough, the universe would provide it.”

— Victor Methos

“Their youngness is terrifying. How could I have put myself into the hands of such inexperience?”

— Margaret Atwood