Michelle Reyes

“People belong to each other only as long as they both believe. He stopped believing.”
― Paula McLain, The Paris Wife

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

“That's what spending time with the young can do—it's the big payoff for all the pain. The young can exasperate, of course, and frighten, and condescend, and insult, and cut you with their still unrounded edges. But they can also drag you, as you protest and scold and try to pull away, right up to the window of the future, and even push you through.”
― Laura Moriarty, The Chaperone

“What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi