Eclipse Iris

“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

“I had learned that there were substitutes for a mother who couldn't be a mother. You could find love with other people. You could find it in places you weren't even looking. But the original wound would never heal. I would carry it with me forever, and so would Tara. That was the trick . . . accepting it, going on with your life, knowing it was part of you.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Smooth Talking Stranger

“All I know is that it’s a bad idea to fulfill your physical needs if you won’t fulfill my emotional ones.”
― Sarah Hogle, You Deserve Each Other

“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