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“she’d frittered hours away reading about socialists and unions and progressives and politics and corporations, fighting about a meaningless flag that said “I’m proud to be an American,” when it should have said “I’m happy to be alive,”
― James McBride, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

“And while their communication was crude at first, their unwritten understanding that a thousand thoughts lay in the head of the other forged their common ground.”
― James McBride, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

“It was over in no time and she was gone. Just like that. And the absence of her meant a thousand tomorrows empty of whatever promise they had once held.”
― James McBride, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

“Their illness is honesty, for they live in a world of lies, ruled by those who surrendered all the good things that God gived them for money, living on stolen land, taken from people whose spirits dance all around us like ghosts.”
― James McBride, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

“lifetime with this woman has taught me that I can be bought. Quite easily, in fact. She treats me to a little black dress from the sale at the soon-to-close-down branch of Westwood, and I’m just as giddy as a schoolgirl by the end of the afternoon.”
― Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

“The feeling is like when someone sees a mark from where you’ve self-harmed, and you slap your hand over the cut, or the burn, or the bruise. You’ve tried to hide it and, in doing so, made it even more obvious that mark is not an accident.”
― Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

“when you embarrass yourself/get blackout you do like to blame other people?? Especially me??? Oh my god go fuck yourself lmfaoooooo”
― Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

“I find it quite repulsive that anyone could so openly roll over and show their soft parts to a stranger. It’s so gross, it’s almost captivating – like when people cry on public transport. I’d literally rather die before I acted like this in front of someone.”
― Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

“We talk about the Kardashians – our theories. I think Kim’s had her nose done and her hairline taken back, maybe some lipo around her jaw to get it sharp. We talk about her arse, at length, and I’m arguing in her favour. It was always big, and she’s had kids, you know? Kids, waist training, squats, illusions. She had it X-rayed. In season six of Keeping Up with the Kardashians. She had it X-rayed, and she didn’t have implants.”
― Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

“I drown it in ketchup and brown sauce, and my stomach screams at me for filling it with carbs and grease and other hard-to-digest things, which I know are going to rip through my colon like a bullet.”
― Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

“call Flo. I call her to ask her, when I do things, do they stay? Do they happen, and do they last? She says she’s a little worried about me. ‘I’m serious,’ I say, chewing my toast. ‘It’s like I do shit, and nothing . . . like, I do this awful shit, and I just want someone to . . . properly fuck”
― Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

“his dazzling smile punches me right in the vagina.”
― Christina Lauren, The Unhoneymooners

“I admit it is easier like this, staring at the floor instead of making eye contact with the man I still hate but also suddenly want to fuck into a coma.”
― Christina Lauren, The Unhoneymooners

“This day has lasted four years.”
― Christina Lauren, The Unhoneymooners

“Being with Ethan increasingly feels like spoiling myself with a perfect new pair of shoes or an extravagant dinner out. I just remain unconvinced that I deserve this daily… or that it can last.”
― Christina Lauren, The Unhoneymooners

“I always assumed my attraction was obvious,” he says. “I wanted to translate your frowns and find out what your problem with me was and then bend you over the back of my couch.”
― Christina Lauren, The Unhoneymooners

“it would make me feel like everything that happened in the past three years happened for a reason.” Ami blinks away, almost like she doesn’t want to admit this next part but can’t help herself. “I’m always going to want there to be a reason for it.”
― Christina Lauren, The Unhoneymooners

“looked at the side of her face. “So what do you think is romantic?” “Common sense,” she answered without thinking about it.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Friend Zone

“I wanted to talk to him about her and talk to her about him. And both of them were gone. The enormity of it was too big to wrap my brain around.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Friend Zone

“construction manager shaking in his boots as Jude examines every last inch of the place.”
― Meghan Quinn, Bridesmaid Undercover

“had no interest in learning how to be okay without him. I didn’t want to talk about his death or share it with strangers. I didn’t need to bond with other people going through it to know I wasn’t alone. People died every day, unfairly and prematurely.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist

“It was hard to come to terms with something that didn’t make sense, like a tragic untimely death or a breakup that came out of nowhere. How can you be at peace when you don’t know what you did to deserve it or what you could have done to make things different? I couldn’t wrap my brain around how I’d misjudged Jason to such a high degree, how I could think he was that in love with me, when clearly he wasn’t. It made me question my entire sense of self. Like finding out your hero isn’t a hero at all and you’re just too blind to know the difference.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist

“I think about the many layers, the many ingredients, the many sophisticated formulas right now shielding me from oxidizing free radicals while also keeping me hydrated.”
― Mona Awad, Rouge

“Hope is a weed that Marva nurtures in the shade. Have faith, she entreats. Never give up, she pleads,”
― Mona Awad, Rouge

“I’d gone through the worst day of my life by myself, and I came out the other side a person who survived it. That was not something to fix. I didn’t need to be fixed. I just needed . . . to be reminded that I was human. And dinner with a stranger who didn’t look at me like I was broken had been a surprisingly good start.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“think I had cried them all out in the last six months. I think I had run dry. Because as I looked down into his face and his lovely pale eyes, all I could feel was a hollow pit in the center of my stomach.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“That was what scared me most, that the thing that I had been working toward so harshly was something that, in a split second, I didn’t even care about.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“think of my face reflected in Grand-Maman’s TV screen, ugly and distorted with dreaming.”
― Mona Awad, Rouge

“Death is inevitable and the world is full of murder, Tom”
― Mona Awad, Rouge

“Mother’s gone is a fact coursing through me. Turned to foam. And somehow I’m alive still.”
― Mona Awad, Rouge