Jen Brown

“I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“But it's a tradition, as if that alone is reason enough. Slavery and buying your wife were traditions, too.”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“My mother described her reactions better than I ever could mine: she said she was "surprised with thunder" that her boy had come back, and that the happiness in her heart was "as deep as the sea".”
― Saroo Brierley, A Long Way Home