Melissa

“And then, as if thrown by a giant paintbrush, there appeared a huge, trembling, pear-shaped blob of the purest indigo. Luminous, numinous, it filled me with rapture: It was the color of heaven, the color, I thought, which Giotto had spent a lifetime trying to get but never achieved—never achieved, perhaps, because the color of heaven is not to be seen on earth.”
― Oliver Sacks, Hallucinations

“If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.”
― Sun Tzu

“I'm the crazy girly captain, Remember?”
― Eoin Colfer, The Arctic Incident

“If chocolate were a mandatory part of breakfast, people wouldn’t be so
grouchy in the morning.”
― Joanne Fluke, Strawberry Shortcake Murder