Frances Denny

“Other girls- our friends’ daughters, my friends when I was a girl, your sisters, were all so merry and sociable. You… were always so quiet. You never joined in, never participated in any activities, and I never knew how to make you feel as if you could. As if you were welcome. So I suppose that embarrassed me. I knew that it was my failure. That I could not give you whatever it was that you needed to be happy. That’s what made me ashamed. Because I never really knew how to be your mother. With your sisters, I could be myself. I could talk about dresses, and suitors, and we could do one another’s hair. You never wanted any of that.”
― Fran Laniado, Beautiful

“One thing I hate about being ill is that no one believes it unless I share it all with them, and even then they don’t act on it.”
― Gillian Polack, Borderlanders

“I’m just afraid that one day something’s going to catch me by surprise. Stale coffee. Squares of American cheese. Hard tomatoes, so unripe they’re white in the center. The most innocent things can call back the most terrible.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“But Kade didn't know what Fremont could possibly be doing other than hacking, torturing, or leaving. And not knowing stuff was bad.”
― Katrina S. Forest, My Best Friend Runs Venus