“These are thoughts I never let leave my lips. These are thoughts most mothers don’t have.”
Read More »Author: the literary brat
Review Time: Pieces of Her
“She had always believed—vehemently, with great conviction—that the only way to change the world was to destroy it.”
Read More »Review Time: Anxious People
“We don’t have a plan, we just do our best to get through the day, because there’ll be another one coming along tomorrow.”
Read More »Review Time: The Dating Plan
“Take your chance. Live a life of no regrets. And don’t blame yourself if it goes wrong. People have their own journey, and it has nothing to do with you.”
Read More »Review Time: The Face on the Milk Carton, et al.
“I don’t have a home there anymore. I don’t have a home anywhere. It’s like I can’t go back and I can’t go forward. Do you ever feel like that?”
Read More »Review Time: Before She Knew Him
“I had two lives before I met Henrietta Mazur, both of them simple, with their own comforts and rewards. And from out of nowhere she’s come along and turned those two lives into one. One complicated mess of a life.”
Read More »Review Time: Daisy Jones & The Six
“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else’s muse. I am not a muse. I am the somebody. End of fucking story.”
Read More »Review Time: The Innocent Wife
“She felt suddenly very alone, as though the person she married had never existed and she had woken up to a life she didn’t recognize, in the middle of a story she didn’t understand.”
Read More »Review Time: Before We Were Yours
“A woman’s past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses.”
Read More »Review Time: The Child
“Who really knows someone else? You can scratch the skin, but you never get to the meat of someone else. Into their bones.”
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