Melissa

“There is a magic to intimacy, a world built of sighs and skin that is thicker than brick, stronger than iron. There is only you, and him, so impossibly close that nothing can come between. Not the enemy, not your allies. In this safe haven, in this hallowed place and time, I could even ask the questions whose answers I feared.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“He grimaced. ‘Jesus, for a girl who made tea for a living you make a terrible cup.’

‘You’re just used to lesbian tea,’ I said. ‘All that lapsang souchong herbal stuff.’

‘Lesbian tea!’ He almost choked. ‘Well, it’s better than this stair varnish. Christ. You could stand a spoon up in that.”
― jojo moyes, Me Before You

“Write hard and clear about what hurts.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“There were some people who hit your life so hard, they left a stain on your future.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle