Abby

“If you’re afraid of falling, you’ll never fly. If you’re afraid of failing, you’ll never try. If you’re afraid of dying, you’ll never truly be alive.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“I’m trying to say Mom as many times as I possibly can because I know I’ll never call another person that again. It’s reserved only for her. There is no replacement.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“There is a time for every fledgling artist where one's taste exceeds one's abilities”
― Gabrielle Zevin

“Do you find me attractive?'
Gene told me the next day that I got it wrong. But he was not in a taxi, after an evening of total sensory overload, with the most beautiful woman in the world. I believed I did well. I detected the trick question. I wanted Rosie to like me, and I remembered her passionate statement about men treating women as objects. She was testing to see if I saw her as an object or as a person. Obviously the correct answer was the latter.
‘I haven’t really noticed,’ I told the most beautiful woman in the world.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project