All morning, Spence has been a well-oiled machine of activity. Everyone doing her bit, quietly and efficiently. It's strange how deliberate people are after a death. All the indecision suddenly vanish...
A woman's reputation is her worth... IT is the way it is. You may hate me for saying so, but there is the truth. Do you not remember that this is how our mother died? She would still be here and Fathe...
Tu madre y yo no aprobamos el alcohol. ¿No has oído hablar de la Decimoctava Enmienda?- ¿La de la ley seca? Bebo a su salud siempre que puedo.
Writers are also sort of like vultures, but with fewer ethics.
¡Está celoso! Kartik está celoso y Simon me ve...apetitosa. Me siento complacida. Y desconcertada. Pero sobretodo complacida.
Maybe it’s a Midwestern thing, but where I’m from, you’re not supposed to brag about yourself. That’s what my mom says. She says you should wait for people to recognize your good qualities. And then y...
You’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But re...
You two must be very happy.Over the moon. Who’d’ve thought a regular schmoe like me could land a gem like Baby Doll here, Sam said.
You are absolute angels of the first order. If I were Pope, I’d canonize you. The Pope would probably love to turn a cannon on you!
Women who have power are always feared.
Will was making a speech, something about having been young and careless once, the sort of thing old-timers said when they issued a deathblow, as if they thought their sanctimonious ramblings disguise...
Why do girls always feel like they have to apologize for giving an opinion or taking up space in the world?
When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear,
What happens if your choice is misguided?' I ask, softly.Miss Moore takes a pear from the bowl and offers us the grapes to devour. 'You must try to correct it.''But what if it’s too late? What if you...
What about you and me, Adina? Duff said, sidling up to her by the railing. I know I screwed up. But do you think we could start over?Adina thought about everything that had happened. Part of her wante...
Welcome to finishing school, Gemma. Learn to embroider, serve tea, curtsy. Oh, and by the way, you might be demolished in the night by a hideous winged creature from the roof.
We've got about as much chance of communing with the dead as we do of sitting in Parliament.
We sit and listen and are enthralled anew, for good stories, it seems, never lose their magic.
Theta blew out another plume of cigarette smoke. Not interested. Love’s messy, kiddo. Let those other girls get moony-eyed and goofy. Me? I got plans.
These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.