Melissa McCullen

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.”
― John Boyne

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche