Helen Vilaranda

“I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true.”
― Agostinho da Silva

“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
― Alex Haley

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

“And I was lost. I could never resist a face toucher. I loved the feeling of being so treasured by someone. I wasn’t laboring under any delusions that Talon Steel treasured me, but oh, the touch of his calloused fingers on my bare cheek… I was in heaven, floating on a magical cloud.”
― Helen Hardt, Craving