“Sooner or later, somebody has to want something, and then admit to it.”
― The Husbands
― The Husbands
“And it will be the tragedy of my life that I cannot love you enough to make you mine. That you cannot be loved enough to be anyone’s.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“This is the life she would design if she was drunk and trying to think through the best possible version of who she could be. Exercise every morning and some evenings too, knowing what to do with root vegetables, spending a lot of time with her niece and nephew, staying in better touch with her mum, this is stuff she's sure she's written on intentional lists in the past, and now she's doing it.”
― The Husbands
― The Husbands
“Who has the rights to the story of a place? Are these rights earned, bought, fought and died for? Or are they given? Are they automatic, like an assumption? Self-renewing? Are these rights a token of citizenship belonging to those who stay in the place or to those who leave and come back to it? Does the act of leaving relinquish one’s rights to the story of a place? Who stays gone? Who can afford to return?”
― The Yellow House
― The Yellow House
“You can be sorry about something and not regret it,” Evelyn says.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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