Peg > Peg's Quotes

“It's remarkable how quickly a person can get used to an impossible situation. How terror and panic can start to feel familiar, even ordinary.”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“Not all storytellers are grandmothers, but all grandmothers are storytellers.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“You named a kitten Broccoli?”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.”
― Kate Storey, The Memory Library

“I want to rid myself of my cancer,” I recited, like I’d heard others do so many times before at retreats and in meetings.”
― Lucinda Berry, When She Returned

“It's suffocating, being loved by you." ... "You don't leave me an inch of space to breathe.”
― Yulin Kuang, How to End a Love Story

“Why was it, Whelan wondered, assholes only saw the light after the damage was done?”
― Mary Kay Andrews, Summers at the Saint

“I’m the oldest daughter, I’m not scared of anything.”
― Sarah Adams, Beg, Borrow, or Steal

“I'll be so careful with you, Emily”
― Sarah Adams, The Cheat Sheet, Beg, Borrow, or Steal

“humanity is more important than caste or even religion. And every human being has rights; treating others badly is a sin.”
― Amita Trasi, The Color of Our Sky

“It made no sense, but guilt doesn’t have to. It simply exists, weighing you down and choking you until you can’t breathe anymore.”
― Simone St. James, The Book of Cold Cases

“One day, when a girl was born in Rosario, the earth would shake with anticipation for her future and not dread.”
― Yamile Saied Méndez, Furia

“Lies have long legs.”
― Yamile Saied Méndez, Furia

“Did something count as a miracle if it possible only because of a lie?”
― Yamile Saied Méndez, Furia

“Is it working?” Stuart asked when he had finished. “I don’t know. Let me use the little transmitter in my uterus to ask all the other women.” I placed a palm on my lower abdomen. “Yes,” I said. “Mostly. Josephine in Rockville is still on the fence, but the rest of the women are on board now.”
― Sara Goodman Confino, Behind Every Good Man

“But I’m not interested in protecting you; I want to make sure the world is respecting you. Because if we genuinely respect women and teach that respect from an early age, you won’t need some man to protect you.”
― Sara Goodman Confino, Behind Every Good Man

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry

“You know you've read a good book when you turn to the last page and feel as little as if you have lost a friend.”
― Paul Sweeney