The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

“Do you understand what I’m telling you? When you’re given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn’t give things, you take things.

I have to ask and be willing to be told no. I have to know my worth.

You do not know how fast you have been running, how hard you have been working, how truly exhausted you are, until someone stands behind you and says, “It’s OK, you can fall down now. I’ll catch you.”

I realize that I have put into motion the end of a lackluster life in the interest of eventually finding a great one.