Melissa

“They just move through the world in a different way, and he’ll probably never really understand them, and he knows they will never understand him, or even try.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“A stranger helped me. Specifically, he helped me look into outer space. I said thank you, obviously.”
― Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence,” he told me reproachfully.”
― Tana French, In the Woods

“It’s gross. Why are so many men so gross but still we say that they are heroes? And if we try to even talk about it with these men, they get incredibly upset and defensive and call us cruel or insecure, but really, you can’t have it both ways. You can’t do the thing but then not want to ever discuss it. If you want to hide it, maybe it’s not just because “it is private” but because you know, you really do know, that it is gross.”
― Jenny Slate, Little Weirds