Splinters of You Quotes

“Women tended to do that. Apologize for things they weren’t sorry for, because they felt uncomfortable being assertive.”
― Anne Malcom, Splinters of You

“We all ached to be part of the club that had systematically destroyed empathy, humanity”
― Anne Malcom, Splinters of You

“We were born with a penchant for romance. Or a weakness, depending on your viewpoint. I went through plenty of phases when the comfort of knowing a happily ever after awaited me at the end of a book, especially when I knew it wasn’t going to happen at the end of my own life.

Happily ever afters weren’t permanent. And they didn’t happen at the end of love stories. Usually they were pretty near the start of them, when everything was shiny and new and people were lying about who they truly were.

So yeah, women needed a little—or a lot of—romance when it was hard-pressed to come from a living, breathing man after the six-month mark.”
― Anne Malcom, Splinters of You