Cassia Schaar

“Can I tell you one thing?” Melonhead says.
I swallow. “Sure.”
“One day isn’t your whole life, Murph.” He waits until I look at him. “A day is just a day.”
I scoff and slouch in the chair. “So what are you saying? That people shouldn’t judge me on one mistake? Tell that to Judge Ororos.”
He leans in against the table. “No, kid. I’m saying you shouldn’t judge yourself for it.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, Letters to the Lost

“Books fall open, you fall in.”
― David T.W. McCord

“With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.”
― Jessamyn West