Melly

“Lionel Goettreider read Cats Cradle and had a crucial realization, what he called the "Accident" - when you invent a new technology you also invent the accident of that technology. When you invent the car, you also invent the car accident. [............] The Accident doesn't just apply to technology, it also applies to people. Every person you meet introduces the accident of that person to you. What can go right and what can go wrong. There is no intimacy without consequence.”
― Elan Mastai, All Our Wrong Todays

“That's what love can do for you, if you let it -- build a person out of all your broken pieces. It doesn't matter if the stitches show. The stitches, the scars, just prove you earned it. And so I stop trying to keep these versions of myself apart. Instead, I make us whole.”
― Elan Mastai, All Our Wrong Todays

“She will become our driving political operator. You might not think a career in academia would prepare her for that, but it turns out that academics are goddamn crazy and getting anything done in the university environment is so convoluted and asinine and theatrical that my mom will find actual politics to be kind of relaxing in comparison.”
― Elan Mastai, All Our Wrong Todays

“I didn’t care at this point and busied myself texting a message to Sydney on the Love Phone, letting her know that my art was a paltry thing compared to the brilliance of her beauty. She texted back: This is me rolling my eyes. To which I replied: I love you too.”
― Richelle Mead, The Fiery Heart