Mitzy

“Bad brain: You know that thing on Saturday? It's going to be a disaster.
Good brain: No, it won't. It'll be fine.
Bad brain: You'll say something stupid.
Good brain: No, you won't.
Bad brain: Yeah. You will.
Good brain: OK, yeah, you will. But that's not a disaster.
Bad brain: Yeah it is. Rhys will be like, damn, I've made a mistake here.
Good brain: No, he won't.
Bad brain: Yeah. He will.
Good brain: That might happen, actually.”
― Sara Barnard, A Quiet Kind of Thunder

“My sweet, there are altogether too many respectable ladies in the world. The supply has far exceeded the demand. But there’s an appalling shortage of attractive pirates, and you do seem to have a gift for plundering and ravishing. I think we’ve found your true calling.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Spring

“I stop, thinking of Topher and his cushioned, monied existence--the way he has had everything handed to him on a plate, the way he's never had to scrap for anything, never had to swallow a snub from a boss, or pick up a stranger's dirty underwear, or do any of the myriad demeaning, boring jobs the rest of us take for granted.

They are arrogant, that's what I realize--maybe not Liz and Carl quite so much, but all of them to some degree. They are protected by the magic of their shares and their status and their IP. They think that life can't touch them--just like I used to do.

Only now it has. Now life has them by the throat. And it won't let go.”
― Ruth Ware, One by One

“With lightning, you're never really sure if that's what it was; it's just a flash. Thunder, you know. You feel it.”
― Sara Barnard, A Quiet Kind of Thunder