Marcella Vernice

“So all these years—since when?—he had been seeing the light of dead stars, long extinguished, yet seemingly still in their appointed places in the heavens.”
― Paz Marquez Benitez, Dead Stars

“Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways -- and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.”
― Aesop, Aesop’s Fables

“If I simply do my best, I cannot complain even if I am taken to hell.”
― Shinichi Suzuki, Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education