Melissa

“He has a vision of the top of his neck, opening up into his head like a bathroom drain. Fragments of words are swirling down it, in a grey liquid he realizes is his dissolving brain.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“The pain of what? The pain of the raw torn places, the damaged membranes where he’d whanged up against the Great Indifference of the Universe. One big shark’s mouth, the universe. Row after row of razor-sharp teeth.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“Beauty was out there, all around. To create art was not to capture it, but to participate in it.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“The thing I hated while reading this book, it turns out, was me. Bad things happen, and shoulders are shrugged. The most serious of events are blended with the strange. The author pulled me inside his mind, and what I found there was a dead stillness, the somber and poignant wisdom of someone with little hope and scars across his eyes.”
― Hugh Howey, Peace in Amber