Shellie

“No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. It’s some sort of survival mechanism.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“Their eyes were flat, incurious, and old- impossibly old, as though instead of looking forward, their eyes saw back to a distant past.”
― Lauren Oliver, Panic

“So why didn't I switch schools? The other good schools I could have sent Bee to...well, to get to them, I'd have to drive past a Buca di Beppo. I hated my life enough without having to drive past a Buca di Beppo four times a day.”
― Maria Semple, Where'd You Go, Bernadette

“when you love someone, when you care for someone, you have to do it through the good and the bad. Not just when you’re happy and it’s easy.”
― Lauren Oliver, Panic