Mandy Lee

“Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.”
― Jalâl ad-Dîn Rûmî, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

“Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.”
― Alain de Botton

“[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.”
― Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

“I couldn't imagine that I'd ever fall in love again like I had with Gideon. For better or worse, he was my soulmate. The other half of me. In many ways, he was my reflection.”
― Sylvia Day, Reflected in You