Michelle

“Solitude matters, and for some people, it's the air they breathe”
― Susan Cain

“I'm forty-two," he said. "That's eighty-four in musician years.”
― Monica Wood

“You know, one meets so many people, the years pass and pass, but there are certain times, certain people— . . . They take up room. So much room. I was married to Howard for twenty-eight years and yet he made only a piddling dent in my memory. A little nick. But certain others, they move in and make themselves at home and start flapping their arms in the story you make of your life. They have a wingspan. . . .”
― Monica Wood, The One-in-a-Million Boy

“Convince is for thought; persuade is for action. You couldn’t convince me that taping my horrible old-lady voice was a good idea, but you persuaded me to do it anyway, didn’t you, you little dickens?”
― Monica Wood, The One-in-a-Million Boy