Michele

“You were enduring these terrible attacks, yet you never sought help?” “From who?” “What about law enforcement? The police?” Jake’s heart froze at the question. He was stunned by it, but prepared, as was his witness. With perfect timing and diction, Kiera looked at Dyer and said, “Sir, I was being raped by the police.”
― John Grisham, A Time for Mercy

“Where books had been a comfort before, they became a necessity, old books best of all: thick heavy tomes with stories that spread and twisted through other worlds, where he could walk like a ghost in the footsteps of other lives.”
― Alexia Casale, House of Windows

“Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“I have always found that making allowances for a liberal amount of fiction in one’s life is necessary to maintaining equanimity. How else does one escape, even for a short time, from the drudgery that everyday life affords?”
― Maria Grace, Longbourn: Dragon Entail