Melissa Maresca

“What, you egg?”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“You turn to me and ask, “Do you ever think about suicide?” I look away from you and close my eyes, eat the raspberries to confuse the blood in my mouth.”
― Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars

“What I like about the job of being a novelist, and at the same time what I find so exhausting about it, is that it's the closest thing to being God you're ever going to get. All the decisions are yours. You decide when the sun comes up. You decide who gets to fall in love and who gets hit by a car. You have to make all the trees and all the leaves and then sew the leaves onto the trees. You make the entire world.”
― Ann Patchett, The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life

“The way the cemetery looks made of books / and the library is a graveyard.”
― Mary Ruefle, Trances of the Blast