4 Quotes & Sayings By Melissa Rose Lawrence

Melissa Lawrence is the author of the New York Times bestselling thrillers, The Summer I Turned Pretty series. She also writes young adult novels under the pen name, Melissa Mendes. Melissa lived in New Jersey with her family until she was sixteen, when they moved to California for a fresh start. After graduating from high school, Melissa traveled extensively through Europe, Asia, and Australia before eventually settling down in Los Angeles Read more

She attended college at San Francisco State University before realizing that writing was what she wanted to do with her life. Her first book was published when she was twenty-five years old.

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You haven’t realized it yet but your life is precious. I always say that people should not do something that has no purpose. Is there a purpose behind your actions? Of course there is a purpose behind your decision to step into this bamboo forest. That is why your life is not meaningless. --The Unnamed Samurai (Chapter 5) Melissa Rose Lawrence
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Humans must experience suffering in order to comprehend the importance of their existence. -- Masaaki Hisakawa (Chapter 4) Melissa Rose Lawrence
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Look at this leaf. When you’re standing close to it you can see every single detail of the leaf. You may think that it’s important to see things, like this leaf, up close but that is an incorrect notion because it is also important to view things from afar. That’s why it is necessary to look at all perspectives of an issue or of an object. --The Unnamed Samurai (Chapter 5) Melissa Rose Lawrence