Lee

“You’re doing so good, I told myself. I’m so proud of you. You just have to get through this. You can go home in fifteen minutes.
I wondered how many women had given themselves the same lecture: the girl who’d held her head up at a dance where her date was paying attention to another classmate; the woman who’d been passed by for promotion at her job; the woman who had listened to a dire diagnosis and yet kept her face together.”
― Charlaine Harris, Dead and Gone

“Every book is a different hood, a different country, a different world. Reading is how I visit places and people and ideas. And when something rings true or if I still have a question, I outline it with a bright yellow highlighter so that it’s lit up in my mind, like a lightbulb or a torch leading the way to somewhere new.”
― Ibi Zoboi, Pride

“Is it a manly game," he asked, for while men are ruled by their loins, those loins have two small brains each no larger than an olive and thus do not think well.”
― Jay Lake, Green

“The wolves in the woods have sharp teeth and long claws, but it's the wolf inside who will tear you apart.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister