Annette Jimenez

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

“I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It’s greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the circus, I’m joining the circus. Although I’m happily married, I spent a great deal of time mentally living with incompatible husbands.”
― Anne Tyler

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars