Michelle

“The best adventures are embarked on alone.”
― Lidia Longorio, Hey Humanity

“I want to be cut off from people like Marloe. Being a real person oneself is a matter of setting up limits and drawing lines and saying no. I don't want to be a nebulous bit of ectoplasm straying around in other people's lives. That sort of vague sympathy with everybody precludes any real understanding of anybody . . . And it precludes any real loyalty to anybody.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“Sometimes all you have to do is tell people the truth. They won't believe you. After that they leave you alone.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Miller sighed. This was exactly the kind of thing that made him want to live in an igloo on a glacier. Even penguins seemed like too much company at a moment like this.”
― Sidney Bell, Loose Cannon