Shellie

“How do I know I can trust you?' she said finally.
'That's the thing about trust.' He crunched an ice cube between his teeth. 'You don't know.”
― Lauren Oliver, Panic

“Nobody's lives just fit together. Fitting together is something you work at. It's something you make happen - because you love each other.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“Their eyes were flat, incurious, and old- impossibly old, as though instead of looking forward, their eyes saw back to a distant past.”
― Lauren Oliver, Panic

“So why didn't I switch schools? The other good schools I could have sent Bee to...well, to get to them, I'd have to drive past a Buca di Beppo. I hated my life enough without having to drive past a Buca di Beppo four times a day.”
― Maria Semple, Where'd You Go, Bernadette