Best Contemporary Women's Fiction Quotes

“Loneliness isn’t corrosive. It is eviscerating.”
― Nicole Mones, Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels

“Nothing is ever quite right, is it, after a parent dies? No matter how well things go, something always feels slightly off . . .”
― Nicole Mones, Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels

“fragrance flowered instantly. He shut down the flame and poured this boiling, crackling oil over the chicken. Then he sprinkled cilantro leaves on top. “Now it’s ready.”
― Nicole Mones, Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels

“Hot pan, warm oil.” He dropped in ginger to hiss and rumble, then added chives. The”
― Nicole Mones, Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels

“from”
― Nicole Mones, Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels

“commune was trapping eels for the workers’ kitchens. This was the year when Chinese had to cease cooking at home and eat their meals in mess halls run by their work units.”
― Nicole Mones, Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels

“firsthand. A history she knows. A nebulae of instincts coalesce, and from the brilliant vapor of their collision an idea emerges. Takes cogent shape. Grows. For another minute Trudy is paralyzed by its logic, its persuasive simplicity—why hasn’t she thought of this before? Then she pivots and jogs”
― Nicole Mones, Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels

“that must feel to all of them like a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”
― Nicole Mones, Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels