Katy Chessum-Rice

“It is unfortunate timing, I think, to be experiencing first love while in my forties and married to somebody else.”
― Cathy Rentzenbrink, Ordinary Time

“He thought perhaps all the pain would sour the love, but instead it drew him further in, as if he were Marc Antony, falling on his own sword. And it was a magical thing, to love someone so much; it was a feeling so strange
and slippery, like a sheath of fabric cut from the sky.”
― Alice Winn, In Memoriam

“On her First Holy Communion, Majella could remember sitting in the chapel for a long time, with Jesus stuck to the roof of her mouth, and her trying to peel him off with her tongue. Somehow she knew picking him off with her finger was all wrong.”
― Michelle Gallen, Big Girl, Small Town

“He sighed. 'It would be good to bring in some younger blood. We need to diversify. I'd like to send someone out to pitch to the bigger companies, and... don't take this the wrong way, Isobel, but you're more suited to a background role.'
She said nothing, but overdid his gravy.”
― Jodie Chapman, Oh, Sister