Ann Dague

“There is something immediately comfortable in meeting another avid reader. A companionship of words and shared worlds that I find difficult to emulate with nonreaders.”
― Pepper Basham, Authentically, Izzy: A fun, low-spice, bookish rom-com told through emails, texts, and letters

“The best stories are like a diamond. They have many sides, and the true reader is the one who attempts to understand more than one.”
― Pepper Basham, Loyally, Luke

“I’m sure you’ve figured out by now that I’m all about fairy tales and sweep-you-off-your-feet kinds of things, but deep down I’ve been realizing what is even better than having a man walk into a forest and finish your dream song. It’s having a man who listens to me. Who wants to KNOW me and cares about what I have to say. Who sees beyond my age or my clothes or my random silliness and knows that deeper than all those things is a heart that cares and a mind that thinks. I mean, I wouldn’t mind him counting down the minutes to see me each day or running through rain to rescue me either. But at the end of the performance, there’s the ever after. And I want someone for the ever-after part, when the audience is gone and the stage is empty, and the only crowd we’re in front of is each other.”
― Pepper Basham, Positively, Penelope

“Winnie-the-Pooh: “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
― Pepper Basham, Positively, Penelope