Alysa

“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“Fraj-ile," I say, pronouncing it the way she does - as if it might be a popular tourist destination in the Pacific, beautiful Fraj Isle, with its white sandy beaches and shark-filled coves.”
― Dan Chaon, Stay Awake

“good people are good people, religion has nothing to do with it”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller