Melissa

“O summer and soft wind. Relieves the heart and makes living cheaper.”
― J.P. Donleavy, The Ginger Man

“It would seem this is the gift modernity has bestowed upon our generation: the practice of "dating," an awkward procedure where a man and a woman find themselves talking rot to each other in a darkened room. If it were up to me, I would say modernity can keep it, as I want no part.”
― Suzanne Rindell, The Other Typist

“I like to come in mid-afternoon with a book of poems and my journal, when the restaurant is changing over from lunch to dinner, when there are few if any patrons. I can relax. I can think.

Eating and drinking and relaxing and thinking. It is a wonderfully mammalian process for slipping between worlds.”
― James J. Patterson, A Secret Woman: A Novel

“Babies are to be kept on silent at all times, and if one goes off in public, it shall be discarded.”
― Matt Bellassai, Everything Is Awful: And Other Observations