"The thing is, that world doesn't exist. All growing up means is that your realize no one will come along to fix things. No one will come along to save you."
— Elizabeth Scott (Love You Hate You Miss You)

"I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons"
— Adrienne Rich

"I deserved the shaking and the headaches and the fact that every single time I took a breath I felt a squeezing in my chest, my heart beating even though I wished it wasn't."
— Elizabeth Scott (Love You Hate You Miss You)

"She'd even violated the only sensible rule of dieting she'd ever run across, the sage advice of the Muppets' Miss Piggy, who recommended never eating anything bigger than your head."
— Susan Donovan (He Loves Lucy)

"'I am a Christian, you know, Julia.'
'So am I. But I'm not above staying out of jail any way I can.'"
— Ann B. Ross (Miss Julia Meets Her Match)

""Our gifts, they are many:
We hop, fly, and crawl.
But kindness," he said,
"Is the finest of all!""
— David Kirk

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
— Michaelangelo

""'What time do you need to be at work tomorrow, Hon?' Lexi asks.
'Well, Ruby's back, so nine o'clock.'
'What does Ruby being back have to do with anything?'
'She's the human stopwatch, remember? Marriage doesn't change everything.'"
— Erynn Mangum (Rematch: A Lauren Holbrook Novel)

"In my own single bed, I know. I know its width and length in hand spans and kicks and there is no spot so far from my body that it cannot feel the heat of my blood. A double bed is a dare, a question. A single bed is complete with just me in it. A double bed is a vacant promise. A threatening Miss Havisham. The thought of having one in my house makes my lower back ache. I wouldn't know how to lie in it."
— Toni Jordan (Addition)