Casey

“my mom is a gruesome skank”
― Catherine Newman, We All Want Impossible Things

“Possibly I was growing ill. One heard of various hysterias in women, of course, but one did not like to think such a state could infect a man; indeed, by definition, an hysteria could not infect a man, being an entirely female condition.”
― Anita Shreve, All He Ever Wanted

“She needs to be educated. She needs to know the contents of those books, there. She needs to understand the movements of the stars and the origins of the universe and the requirements of kindness. She needs to know mathematics and poetry. She must ask questions. She must seek to understand. She must understand the laws of cause and effect and unintended consequences. She must learn compassion and curiosity and awe. All of these things.”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

“We are passing now the mill towns of Holyoke and Chicopee in Massachusetts, blights upon the New England landscape”
― Anita Shreve, All He Ever Wanted