Kalie

“He eyed Margaret with resentment; covertly; with suspicion. A womb (unpleasant thought!). She had never told him she possessed one. Was that where women went and sat, to brood, to count their injuries? Miles vaguely hated her.”
― Tess Slesinger, The Unpossessed

“It didn’t matter if you made a fool of yourself in front of strangers – he saw that now. It probably didn’t matter much if you did it in front of your friends. The shameful thing was doing it in front of strangers, and being seen by your friends in the process.”
― Michael Frayn, Towards the End of the Morning

“You are always wanting other people to act in some drama which you have invented.”
― Iris Murdoch

“Bob, he’s been crazy for weeks. A big job went wrong and he had to lie low and he got in with a man who put him on to some drug or other—Mary Warner, may be.” She lowered her voice over the mobsman’s name for the drug marihuana.”
― Stella Gibbons, My American