Michelle Walker

“People posting pictures of “Elvis” at a mall in Tuscaloosa.”
― Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life

“The boy from the plane, I thought. The one with the teddy bear. Where was Rudy’s comfort? Where was someone to alleviate this robbery of his life? Who was there to soothe him as life’s rug was snatched from under his sleeping feet?”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Don’t think I mind a routine”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 3

“How do you give someone a piece of sky? Late in February, she stood on Munich Street and watched a single giant cloud come over the hills like a white monster. It climbed the mountains. The sun was eclipsed, and in its place, a white beast with a gray heart watched the town. “Would you look at that?” she said to Papa. Hans cocked his head and stated what he felt was the obvious. “You should give it to Max, Liesel. See if you can leave it on the bedside table, like all the other things.” Liesel watched him as if he’d gone insane. “How, though?” Lightly, he tapped her skull with his knuckles. “Memorize it. Then write it down for him.” “… It was like a great white beast,” she said at her next bedside vigil, “and it came from over the mountains.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief