Your entire sense of self-worth is

upon your belief that you matter, that you

universe. But you don't. Because we are the ants.
David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

predicated
matter to the
Shaun

There's an amazing world out there for you to discover, Henry Denton, but you have to be willing to discover
yourself first. Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had
simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.
Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children
The uncertainty of my own experience is crushing. I am drowning in an infinite sea.
Sinking slowly, the weight of the lightless depths forcing me down, forcing the air from
my lungs, squeezing the blood from my heart.
Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

Breathe,
let your lungs
expand towards the sky,
let them float away into clouds,
let them burn with the fullness of life
fighting against the cages of our skin,
prisoners of the ribs holding them down.