All points of reference had been stripped away; there was only the veil and her mother’s huge, beautiful face. It seemed she could feel the bee’s panic, its desperation to escape; she could see her mother’s hands pummelling the air, then,
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“If you swapped out all my Jessicas for Johns, do you know what you'd get? Fiction. Just fiction. Ready and willing to be read by anyone, but somehow by being a woman who writes about women, I've eliminated half the Earth's population from my potential readers, and you know what? I don't feel ashamed of that. I feel pissed.”
― Beach Read
― Beach Read
“And that was the moment I realized: when the world felt dark and scary, love could whisk you off to go dancing; laughter could take some of the pain away; beauty could punch holes in your fear. I decided then that my life would be full of all three.”
― Beach Read
― Beach Read
“If you have the will to do something, and you keep at it, and you don't give up, you can do anything. And there's no greater will than the will to love who you want.”
― Frankly in Love
― Frankly in Love
“He fit so perfectly in the love story I'd imagined for myself that I mistook him for the love of my life.”
― Beach Read
― Beach Read
“I know feeling small gets to some people, . . . but I kind of like it. Takes the pressure off when you’re just one life of six billion at any given moment. And when you’re going through something hard . . . it’s nice to know you’re not even close to the only one.”
― Beach Read
― Beach Read
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