Johanna Mort

“I’m Yours” by Alessia Cara

“You’re talented. The biggest thing holding you back from success is your own fear of failing. You’re going to fail a few times anyways, so might as well fail spectacularly. It’ll make your recovery that much more impressive.”

“You Can Discover Everything You Need To Know About Everything By Looking At Your Hands”

“A lot more Tinder. I didn’t expect that, but it’s true.”

“Maybe it’s just in America, but it seems that if you’re passionate about something, it freaks people out. You’re considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.”

“I pace and stress about the date for hours and hours, compose and delete countless texts bailing on the date, and then just go for it. I just have to rip the bandaid off quickly. I want to die for the majority of the evening, but at the end of the day, I’m almost always glad I went out.”

They were your ride-or-die. And now they’re not. The North Star that gave you the confidence to move fearlessly forward has blinked out, and you’re lost and unsure if you even want to continue in the same direction as before.

Finding a partner and building a life is such a staple expectation that everyone has about growing old, and I think that’s why we can feel so empty when we don’t have that.

“The Only Thing” by Sufjan Stevens

“I accidentally swiped right on my ex. We matched, which she took to mean that I wanted to get back together. I had to low-key break up with her all over again. It was horrible.”

“Sharp wit. The kind that keeps me on my toes whenever we’re talking.”

“There are 3 things you never turn your back on: bears, men you have wronged, and a dominant male turkey during mating season.”

Omg is that a cat?! THANK GOD. Brb, playing with this cat for the next 12 hours or until my friend gets here.

It’s a secret that you’ll TAKE TO THE GRAVE.

When did pumpkin spice lattes become a national treasure? Why? Who actually likes these??

THERE IS SO MUCH TO DO AFTER THE SUN GOES DOWN. You’re so used to everything closing by 9pm and just driving around with your friends, but now you can go out. And like, meet people. That you haven’t known your entire life.

“The area we were driving through was boring, the music was barely on, and we weren’t talking about anything, but I remember feeling like I had won the lottery to be on a boring road trip with him. We’ve been married for three years now.”

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness. The further you venture into this story, the more you realize that this book isn’t just a horror novel, it’s an emotionally exhausting and incredibly moving story about loss and forgiveness.