Charlene Whitlock

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down