Jessica Lorenzo

“His huge shoulders lift in a shrug. “It’s true. How many of your favorite shows got canceled? How many of the best albums barely sold when they came out? I mean, It’s a Wonderful Life was a box office flop in its time. If everyone who worked on that movie had known, could see how things were going to pan out in the short term, would they have even bothered to make it? And then the world would’ve lost out on something beautiful. Just because something doesn’t make money or win awards doesn’t mean it doesn’t have value. Or doesn’t deserve to exist. The job is alchemy. You take a hunk of rock and you try to turn it into gold, and the gold isn’t even really the point.”
― Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life

“I think you live in a world that’s more interesting than the one most people live in,” he says, and just as my heart starts to sink with disappointment, with a kind of loneliness, he adds, “and I wish I could live in it too.” I feel myself beaming. “I’ll take you sometime.” “I’d like that,” he says.”
― Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life

“Was it a lie if I told myself that, before he slept the endless sleep, Rodrick Myndacious, the heretic, the beautiful rogue—the best knight I’d known—hadn’t bothered calling out to gods or men? Was it wrong to hope that, just before he died… … He’d said my name instead?”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon

“Do you want to sit?” he asks. I study him, trying to read his serious expression. “I can’t tell if you’re just being polite or if that’s a real invitation.” The face he makes, I am nearly certain, is an actual smile, no matter how faint. “You can basically always assume that I’m not just being polite,” he says. This makes me laugh. That probably should’ve occurred to me sooner. It’s not like he’s been a paragon of manners in the last few days since we first met.”
― Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life