Alessia

“think it’s because of all his reading,’ I said. ‘He’s spent his life immersing himself in other worlds – conjuring images from what he’s read on the page. I’m sure that must have given him a wealth of stories for his mind to draw on.”
― Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

“You look like my grandfather.” She blew smoke. “He’s from Montenegro. The Appalachia of Yugoslavia.”
― Tea Hacic-Vlahovic, Give Me Danger

“I wasn’t greedy, which was rare, and I was humble and kind, dependable, the precise opposite of everyone else she hired. I was the weakest when it came to sales ability, no question there, but maybe in her view, competent people were a dime a dozen—she was highly competent herself. Trust is what’s hard to come by.”
― Hu Anyan, I Deliver Parcels in Beijing

“Don’t count yourself out this early, Daisy. You’re all sorts of things you don’t even know yet.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six