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…

- Marina Keegan

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 invol…

- Marina Keegan

I'm trying to figure out if I love art enough to be poor.

- Marina Keegan

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.

- Marina Keegan

But it became clear very quickly that I'd underestimated how much I liked him. Not him, perhaps, but the fact that I had someone on the other end of …

- Marina Keegan

The middle of the universe is tonight, is here, And everything behind is a sunk cost.

- Marina Keegan

What an honor. What a responsibility. What a gift we have been given to be born in an atmosphere with oxygen and carbon dioxide and millions of years…

- Marina Keegan

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.

- Marina Keegan

I want enough time to be in love with everything . . .

- Marina Keegan