Stephanie

“But knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things.”
― Maureen Johnson, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“Stories are all around us, caught in the throats of the strangers you walk past and scrawled on the pages of locked diaries. They’re in love letters that were never sent and between the lines of every conversation ever spoken. Just because your story’s not written down doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.”
― Jodi Picoult, Off the Page

“Melanie finds this interesting in spite of herself — that you can use words to hide things, or not to touch them, or to pretend that they're something different than they are.”
― M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts

“That was the responsibility that went with being human, old Ku’oosh said, the story behind each word must be told so there could be no mistake in the meaning of what had been said; and this demanded great patience and love.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony