Melissa

“It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“We spend our entire lives thinking about death. Without that project to divert us, I expect we would all be dreadfully bored. We would have nothing to evade, and nothing to forestall, and nothing to wonder about. Time would have no consequence.”
― Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

“To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.”
― Hannah Kent, Burial Rites