Melissa

“A friend said to me, “Hey you need to grow a pair. Grow a pair, Bro.” It’s when someone calls you weak, but they associate it with a lack of testicles. Which is weird, because testicles are the most sensitive things in the world. If you suddenly just grew a pair, you’d be a lot more vulnerable. If you want to be tough, you should lose a pair. If you want to be real tough, you should grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.”
― Sheng Wang

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Maybe if I can just sleep for a hundred years, I'll wake up in a better story.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, My Life Next Door

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn