Michelle

“CHANCE RUNS LIKE A RIVER THROUGH ALL OUR LIVES, AND BEING PREPARED FOR SURPRISE IS THE BEST WE CAN DO.”
― Mike Robbins, 365 Inspirational Quotes: A Year of Daily Wisdom from Great Thinkers, Books, Humorists, and More

“That summer, the one you’ll never forget, every movie house beamed the same set of thematic and narrative images—the same Avatar, same Harry Potter, same Fast and the Furious, flickering pictures stitched in our minds that replaced our own memories, archetypal stories that became our shared history, that taught us what to expect from life, that defined our values. What was that but a religion? Also,”
― Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins

“Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. JAMES JOYCE, AUTHOR”
― Mike Robbins, 365 Inspirational Quotes: A Year of Daily Wisdom from Great Thinkers, Books, Humorists, and More

“She blamed the lack of real flowers on both weather and the war, and instead put four or five pieces of coal in glass bowls, added water, salt, and ammonia, before finally pouring a mixture of violet and blue ink over them. It was a complete mystery to me how this alchemy would result in anything resembling flowers, but they were “blooming” within the hour.”
― Sara Gruen, At the Water's Edge