Ariel

“I find what gives me pleasure and I do it until it gives me pain," she said. "Every time."
Charlie looked at her with his funny half smile.
"Yeah, but how else would you know when to stop?”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“He was the only man in the house, but he
also was the house. They lived inside his moods.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“No New Yorker, no matter how cynical, is immune to the feeling of flying into JFK at night. Tired though she was, anxious though she'd been, some hidden hope alighted in Bonnie as soon as the plane touched down. She was back in New York. City of sirens, city of secrets, city of her sisters. She had dreaded returning, but it was surprisingly comforting to see the city lights wink in their bed of black below, each one a little life of its own. She was home, the only one she knew, not because she'd always lived in it, but because it always lived in her.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“She has said the words I need a drink one hundred and thirty-two times so far this year. That's more than she's said I love you in her entire life.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters