Melissa

“If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day; what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore, can keep a person who tries hard sane.”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp

“I’ve been thinking I’d like to be Daisy; I’d like to have someone like Gatsby stare at my house for whole years and never stop dreaming of me”
― Koren Zailckas, Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

“The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.”
― Richard Pryor

“If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.”
― Joe Konrath