Melissa

“Someone put opera on inside the house. Someone changed it to hip-hop, thank God. Someone started a shower. Someone vacuumed. Again.
Life. In all its mundane majesty.
And you couldn't take advantage of it if you were sitting on your ass in the shadows... whether it was in actuality, or metaphorically because you were trapped in an attic's darkness.”
― J.R. Ward, Black Dagger Brotherhood Collection

“To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.”
― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

“She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, that strange happiness that was sometimes so big that it felt like sadness. It was the way she felt when she looked at the stars.”
― Maggie Stiefvater

“You love each other – anyone can see that, looking at you – that kind of love that can burn down the world or raise it up in glory.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels