The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

If I want things to change, I have to change how I do things.

My mother raised me to be polite, to be demure. I have long operated under the idea that civility is subservience. But it hasn’t gotten me very far, that type of kindness. The world respects people who think they should be running it. I’ve never understood that, but I’m done fighting it.

charisma is “charm that inspires devotion.”