Chealsye Bowley

“Maybe that's why people have friends at all. Not because they like them so much but because they don't make them feel so much worse.”
― Joe Meno, How the Hula Girl Sings: A Novel

“You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?”
― Lorrie Moore

“Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconcile, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most reluctant and doubtful of writers, this willingfulness must emerge. Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying, 'Listen to me'.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri