Anexandra

“Everyone says you have to be super-precise to bake - like your extra-credit thing, the time-travel project. One calculation out of place and the whole thing would go wrong, right? It's hogwash! Look at this - bit of eggshell in there, scoop it out with a finger, what the hell. Too much flour, forget the butter, drop the pan - it doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, it mostly turns out OK. And when it doesn't, you cover it with icing.”
― Harriet Reuter Hapgood, The Square Root of Summer

“We can’t expect one person — or even two — to take the entire burden of resisting on their shoulders. We all have to stand up and say no.”
― Dhonielle Clayton, The Everlasting Rose

“One of the hazards of having friends, especially long time ones, is just how well they know you.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“You're radically collaborative, profoundly empathetic, and deeply communal. Everyone who tells you anything different is selling the fear that is the only thing that can break that nature.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor