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“A woman in a home only big enough for herself is the ultimate fuck you to patriarchal society. It says I am enough for me.”
― Jessica Knoll, The Favorite Sister

“Men who call women crazy are always the men who have first pushed them to the brink.”
― Jessica Knoll, The Favorite Sister

“That's what all stories want. They want to get out, get told, get heard.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

“Just because it's made up, doesn't mean it isn't real...Made up is the most powerful real there is.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

“If you wrote your own characters, they didn't disappoint you like real people did.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

“But if you made yourself up, you got to be exactly who you knew yourself to be.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

“Mistake good because you learn, you fix.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

“This is how you cook a novel. Some made up, some real life, all true.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

“That is the other thing novelist do. We imagine the world we hope for and endeavor, with the greatest power we have, to bring that world into being.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

“When somebody dies, you forget they're an asshole.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pieces of Her

“I'm not choosing anybody but myself.' Jane was sick of men thinking they could give her ultimatums.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pieces of Her

“How had her mother fallen in with these idiots?”
― Karin Slaughter, Pieces of Her

“Laura was not a lonely teenaged girl anymore. She was fifty-five years old. She was a mother, a cancer survivor, a businesswoman. This was her life, Not Nick,”
― Karin Slaughter, Pieces of Her

“Love doesn't keep you in a constant state of turmoil. It gives you peace.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pieces of Her

“She knew that most men desired her because she was attractive and she was smart, but also because she was a drunk and she was easy. This one? She hoped for his sake he wasn't as different as he seemed, because she always disappointed those men quickly or broke their hearts over time.”
― Chris Bohjalian, The Flight Attendant

“Supposedly, whatever we do that's selfish goes with us to the grave; whatever we do that's selfless lives on.”
― Chris Bohjalian, The Flight Attendant

“...The plain unvarnished reality that we cannot escape who we are and most of the time we die as we lived.”
― Chris Bohjalian, The Flight Attendant

“Remember that person you wanted to be? There's still time.”
― Chris Bohjalian, The Flight Attendant

“Penny arranged everything exactly the way that made sense. TP was hung in the correct direction (‘over’ obviously; ‘under’ was for murderers).”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“Sam sighed. Maybe if he called she'd tell him where she'd buried his balls and his heart.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“Penny would stop trying. Instead she'd spend time preparing for her future, living in books until the exciting part of her life would begin. Things would matter then. In fact, everything would be different.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“It wasn't a romance; it was too perfect for that.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“At least now she had time to write. All the time. In the world. Alone. Forever.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“She smiled.
Sam smiled back.
She died.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“Uh...What psycho sets their texts to preview mode? (Mallory)”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“But sometimes it's so incidental that these people are the parents. Beyond the biology of it. It's not as if they had to pass a test or unlock achievements to be the ones making the decisions. Sometimes they're actually stupid.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“Penny gasped as her body shook with laughter, eyes streaming.
Sam watched her like she was nuts.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“People scared Penny all the time. Like her mother and even Sam. It meant she loved them.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“You've got to understand that not everybody's going to be exactly your kind of person. They're not going to be completely satisfactory or meet your myriad qualifications.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“Loving someone was traumatizing.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact