Melissa

“She'd grown up inside books. No matter how dark life became, shutting out the hurt was as easy as opening a cover. A child of murdered parents and a failed rebellion, she'd still walked in the boots of scholars and warriors, queens and conquerors.

The heavens grant us only one life, but through books, we live a thousand.”
― Jay Kristoff, Godsgrave

“Communists had it all wrong. It wasn't the rich who were imprisoned by their possessions, it was the poor.”
― Jade Chang, The Wangs vs. the World

“And what is any artist, really, but someone who doesn't mind being an asshole?”
― Jade Chang, The Wangs vs. the World

“Sure, it will be hard, but all you need to be a writer is perseverance, a low-level alcohol dependency, and a questionable moral compass.”
― Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody