dana

“Maybe it’s a lie that you have to keep doing what you have always done. That you have to be able to draw a straight line from how you acted yesterday to how you’ll act tomorrow. You don’t have to be consistent. You can change. Just because you want to.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“...I knew dozens, maybe hundreds, of gorgeous, funny, smart, amazing women none of whom needed a boyfriend but none of whom could get a boyfriend, and the fact of that was slowly corroding their belief in themselves from within.”
― Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

“How were you supposed to change- in ways both big and small- when your family was always there to remind you of exactly the person you apparently signed an ironclad contract to be?”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“I had worked so hard to get my head above water, only to look around and discover I was in the big, freaky ocean, alone.”
― Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually