Luchrysta

“That when things go your way, it never makes you as happy as you’d expected, but when things go against you, it’s a cold-water jolt, an unshakable outrage that dogs you forever.”
― Maria Semple, Today Will Be Different

“Now as then, he sensed the threads of his life scattering and rearranging before this new and overwhelming thing that had landed among them.”
― Helene Wecker, The Golem and the Jinni

“she had felt weightless and carefree, as if she could go back to a bright, hard, selfish time when she had only herself to think about.”
― Tessa Hadley, The Past

“a voice that signaled he was being kind but not sincere.”
― Maggie Shipstead, Seating Arrangements