Melissa Chapman

“So it goes.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Yesterday I was a fool, today I know better.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be that same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC. And it is in order to acknowledge the continuity of this polymer that I begin so many sentences with 'And' and 'So' and end so many paragraphs with '...and so on.' And so on. 'It's all like an ocean!' cried Dostoevski. I say it's all like cellophane.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“Tate remembered his dad’s definition of a man: one who can cry freely, feel poetry and opera in his heart, and do whatever it takes to defend a woman.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing