Joycelyn Elliott

“For most of my life, I have dwelt in a sort of no man’s land where loneliness has been an easier option than trying to fit in.”
― Fiona Valpy, The Dressmaker's Gift

“if you’re not with the book you want, you might as well want the book you’re with.”
― Melissa Albert, The Hazel Wood

“There’s a resistance?” The word sounds sweet as I say it. “Honey, there’s always a resistance. Didn’t you go to college?”
― Christina Dalcher, Vox

“Prudence is a bourgeois virtue, because the rich have something worth saving. The poor splurge because they need desperately to make a colorful splash across the drab fabric of their lives. The hungry don’t dream of brown rice and vegetables; they dream of cake.”
― Trevanian, The Crazyladies of Pearl Street