Melissa

“How do I break it to you that people aren't predictable? That life is confounding and sadistic in its cruelty? That when things go your way, it never makes you as happy as you'd expected, but when things go against you, it's a cold-water jolt, an unshakable outrage that dogs you forever.”
― Maria Semple, Today Will Be Different

“...it seemed hope's glimmer always hovered in the distance, no matter how long one journeyed towards it without success.”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House

“...I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I'd cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in e like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full.”
― Sylvia Plath

“It was almost as if there was a tear in the fabric I was made of, and he was the only color thread that would match to stitch it back up.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time