Jamie Rivera

“Not all stories speak to all listeners, but all listeners can find a story that does, somewhere, sometime. In one form or another.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“So many people abuse the system, it’s impossible for the hardworking people to get the help they need,” she’d say. This was the construct she’d built in her head: Most of the beneficiaries of the system were extravagant moochers, but she—despite never having worked in her life—was an obvious exception.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“But here's the thing about crazy: It. Wants. Out.”
― Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody

“We are all stardust and stories.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea