Pamela

“The reason this kind of neighborhood is the American dream is not that it’s fancy or aesthetically pleasing or whatever. Human beings like those things, but what we really crave is stability. We want to go to bed at night and know that things will still be okay when we wake up. We want to rest easy. And that’s the feeling a white picket fence gives off: safety. Stability.”
― Gracie Ruth Mitchell, Juniper Bean Resorts to Murder

“I don’t know how it’s possible to miss someone and resent them, to love them and hate them all at the same time. To be glad they’re gone and simultaneously wish they were still here.”
― Gracie Ruth Mitchell, Juniper Bean Resorts to Murder

“The more he talks, the more I realize that I am a maga—a fool who has been taken advantage of.”
― Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister, the Serial Killer

“Some stories are better the more you read them. You notice things you didn’t the first time. And not only that.” She hesitated. “Books you’ve already read are like old friends. It’s comforting to revisit them.”
― Mimi Matthews, The Belle of Belgrave Square