Melissa

“Who on earth would not long to be fought for? Is this not the very heart of human existence, to be worth fighting for, worth losing everything for?”
― Andrew Sean Greer, The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

“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

“Toast cannot be explained by any rational means. Toast is me. I am toast.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“don’t know if our life has a purpose and I don’t see that it matters. What does matter is that we’re a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven