Kate Seader

“I, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
― Augusten Burroughs

“perhaps love was like the mumps. If a woman came down with it after forty, it could kill her”
― Nevada Barr, 13½

“Deliberately, she took a long drink. It wasn't as good as she remembered, but then little was. She caught herself in that thought and was ashamed. Cynicism was okay, bitterness a pain in the neck. The hairline difference between the two was hope and humor. The cynic had both, the embittered, nothing.”
― Nevada Barr

“I can't explain the alchemy that transmuted one evening into the equivalent of years held lightly in common. The only way I can put it is that we recognized, too surely even for surprise, that we shared the same currency.”
― Tana French, In the Woods