Eclipse Iris

“Her father once told her casually that she was built like a plum on toothpicks, and the phrase was at once so cruel and so poetic that it clicked into place around her like a harness. • • •”
― Liz Moore, The God of the Woods

“The most anguished pains and blissful triumphs will fade to nothing. All that will matter is this love”
― Susan Abulhawa, The Blue Between Sky and Water

“Whenever my mother was around, reality took on the dimensions of a fun-house mirror. Insanity was simply a result of being a frequent Starbucks customer, size eight was a stage of obesity that required medical intervention, and any man I dated was clearly having to make do with a second-rate substitute for Candy Varner. And anything I had ever done or said could be conveniently rewritten to suit whatever spin she had chosen.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Smooth Talking Stranger

“My teta hung the sky every morning, like a sapphire sheet on a clothesline pirouetting in the breeze”
― Susan Abulhawa, The Blue Between Sky and Water