Dia Cassani

“We live with a value system that I call the Extrovert Ideal—the omnipresent belief that the ideal self is gregarious, alpha, and comfortable in the spotlight.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Even though I had a history in that house, it didn’t matter. You can’t go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have . . . is now.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“After a week he was moved to a different wing and into a shared six-by-eight with a grizzled old con called Alf. He had faded tattoos that stained most of the visible skin on his hands, arms and neck a dull blue, sharp eyes and a thick beard that made his mouth look like an axe wound on a bear.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room