Mo' Joy

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be happy even if the present was painful. He would allow himself dreams.”
― Suzanne Collins, Gregor the Overlander

“It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“How could I explain death to my children without taking away their innocence? How would any of us ever be able to go back out into the world and live, smile, talk, plan ever again?”
― Nina Sankovitch, Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading