Jo Boyle > Quotes

“Isn’t a novel just a bunch of short stories tied together?” “Ah, how I wish it were so, George. Think of it this way. A novel is a marriage. A series of short stories is a bunch of one-night stands. The latter might always keep you active, but you wouldn’t call the sum total of all that bedhopping a relationship.”
― Jo Boyle, The Space She Made for Me: A Collection of Sapphic Short Stories

“I'm sorry. I didn't mean to... I shouldn't have... I'm sorry, Jay. It's the ghee. All that purified butter clogging my inhibitors.”
― Jo Boyle, Cicatrice: New Eyes and Brave