The Make-Up Test Quotes

“This is not a fit. It's the truth Do you know what it was like to live with you? The constant remarks about my weight? The diet printouts everywhere? The way you'd buy junk food and stock the house with snacks and then shame me for eating what was available? The way you brushed aside everything I cared about?” Her fingers ached from their grip on the bed frame. “I guess I should thank you, since your disinterest motivated me. But there’s always been this part of me that was empty, a hole I couldn’t fill because it was yours.”
― Jenny L. Howe, The Make-Up Test

“Sometimes, when she was feeling especially self-reflective, Allison wondered if her lack of relationships over the last few years had less to do with Colin, and more to do with Jed. Or at least with the scars he’d left her. When Colin broke up with her, it had activated something left festering from her father. This idea that she wasn’t enough, that she wasn’t worth the hassle of holding on to.”
― Jenny L. Howe, The Make-Up Test

“This is not a fit. It's the truth Do you know what it was like to live with you? The constant remarks about my weight? The diet printouts everywhere? The way you'd buy junk food and stock the house with snacks and then shame me for eating what was available? The way you brushed aside everything I cared about?” Her fingers ached from their grip on the bed frame. “I guess I should thank you, since your disinterest motivated me. But there’s always been this part of me that was empty, a hole I couldn’t fill be cause it was yours.”
― Jenny L. Howe, The Make-Up Test

“She remembered everything, as if their entire history had been carved into her bones.”
― Jenny L. Howe, The Make-Up Test

“For someone who could often barely function without considering (and planning for) every worst-case scenario, she could also be oddly compulsive.”
― Jenny L. Howe, The Make-Up Test

“And for the first time in her life, Alison Avery kissed a knight.”
― Jenny L. Howe, The Make-Up Test

“I know we can't go back." When he glanced up his eyes snagged hers. Their table was small enough that they had to concentrate from keeping their knees from bumping and so close Alison could see every glint of bronze and green in his irises. A cash of coins and emeralds. A trap like dead man's treasure. "But sometimes I" He was whispering and she had to lean in to hear it. " I wish we could go forward.”
― Jenny L. Howe, The Make-Up Test

“The language can feel hard, and the structure of the stories is very different from what you see in the modern novel, but once you adjust to these elements you'll discover that medieval literature and other older works are weird and fun and explore a lot of the same questions we are still asking today. Plus, without Beowulf, Chaucer and Sir Thomas Mallory we wouldn't have The Lord of the Rings, or Game of Thrones. Old English epics and medieval romance set the ground work for the whole fantasy genre.”
― Jenny L. Howe, The Make-Up Test

“Happy endings aren’t life. That happily-ever-after doesn’t leave room for living. Life keeps going. Keeps changing… the true happy ending is the one that doesn’t stop.” ⁣”
― Jenny L. Howe, The Make-Up Test

“Allison had once taken stock of every description she could think of for large bodies, and they were pretty much all food-related: pear-shaped, apple-shaped, juicy bottom, big melons, etc. It was disgusting. So, until everyone started referring to thin people as ‘asparagus-shaped,’ Allison would be curvy or plus-sized, or if she really wanted to watch people have a shock, fat.”
― Jenny L. Howe, The Make-Up Test