Devi

“She still ached for every version of Frances. But to love Frances was to be always saying goodbye to the girl Frances used to be and falling in love again with the girl Frances was becoming. She missed every Frances she had known. But oh, this Frances. This lanky, gangly, whip-smart Frances, with her ears pierced and a Cyndi Lauper T-shirt on, this Frances was a gift Joan would one day miss, too.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“Who cares what word you use? Some aunts are completely irrelevant, and some aunts have been there since the day their niece was born. I had one grandmother I never saw and one who, when she died, I cried for three days. The word isn’t what matters. It’s the specific relationship.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“Just then, I felt something I hadn’t experienced in a long time. It was like my heart was smiling.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“Yes,’ he said, ‘the stories are breathing.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop