Mackenzie - PhDiva Books

“I am in no way an adrenaline-seeker. I’m much more of an irritable bowel syndrome kind of gal, really. And rest assured, my bowels were highly irritated by all the stress.”
― Camille Perri, The Assistants

“But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult! The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.”
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

“You can't force a person to show up, but you can learn a lesson when they don't”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story