Eleanor

“I’m under absolutely no obligation to make sense to you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“There's a secret to getting a boyfriend at fifteen, and it is this: you have to have a group of friends. You'll never get picked up alone unless by creeps or unless you are extremely beautiful (and even then you'll mostly get creeps), because alone you have no personality. It's only when you're with your friends that you start to shine.”
― Alice Pung, Laurinda

“There was something creepy about the femininity at Laurinda, something so cloistered and yet brimming with stifled sex that it reminded me of the Victorian whalebone corsets we once saw at the Werribee Park Mansion, which kept everything cramped tight, until the stitches unravelled and out poured mounds of naked pink and white. It was the femininity of tiny éclairs and teacups, crocheted collars and little pearl earrings, the young-girl-to-old-woman transition that skipped sexuality altogether, so that when you saw it - in Gina, for instance - it was as garish as a scarlet A on the chest.”
― Alice Pung, Laurinda