Jenny

“She was monumentally, conspicuously damaged in a way that was, to us then, ineffably chic.”
― Katie Roiphe

“Astrid was surprised they still taught J. D. Salinger in school—he had slept with a teenager, hadn’t he? They should just be reading Toni Morrison. It seemed so easy, to cut out the creeps and sexual predators, just by cutting out all the men. Sure, you’d lose some decent people, but the net result would be so positive, who would complain?”
― Emma Straub, All Adults Here

“It turns out that you don't end up with the people you love; by definition, you end up with the ones who stay.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, The Path of Minor Planets

“There may be no book on the mothers of poets, or artists in general, but it might one day be written and would be, I think, an enlightening read.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, What W.H. Auden Can Do for You