April Andrews

“If she had to summarize the plot of contemporary life, the mother would say: it’s about everyone punishing each other for things they didn’t do. And here she is, refusing to look at her baby, punishing him for something he didn’t do.”
― Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch

“Good marriages are never as interesting as bad affairs.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“Reading let's us live in someone else's stories. Literature builds bridges; it makes our world larger, not smaller.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

“When I go down the hall and find Maisie and Nell asleep in their twin beds, I see them both as they are and as they were: grown women and little girls.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake