Cynthia Bugsey

“To work problems out for yourself, to find you own way out of ignorance, to know the pleasure of knowing - these things improve the quality of life. Unfashionable, even impractical, but true.”
― Jessica Zafra, Twisted 8 ½

“I'd rather be a bitch than a doormat.”
― Jessica Zafra

“We like to look for patterns and find connections in unrelated events. This way we can explain them to ourselves. Life seems neater, or at least less messy. We need to feel we are in control: it is integral to our self-esteem. We also know, though we deny it, that we are not in control. So we settle for the illusions of control. What if we stopped fooling ourselves?”
― Jessica Zafra, Twisted 8 ½

“We read because we are essentially alone.”
― Jessica Zafra, Twisted 8: The Night of the Living Twisted