Sara R

“I’m an open book,” I say, thinking of all the men who have found it illegible.”
― Raven Leilani, Luster

“Once Agnes had been in love and since then she had been in pain.”
― Rachel Cusk, Saving Agnes

“On a European train, she sat in a compartment with a babyish Czech couple who were trying to climb into each other's eyes, hands, mouths. Every few minutes the girl would pick up her boyfriend's wrist and kiss it as if she were eating the season's first strawberry, and then release a flood of tender and penetrating Czech directly in her face.”
― Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

“They thought her strange, she knew. They would not blame the difficult world. Everyone else dealt with it. Why couldn't she?”
― Rachel Cusk, Saving Agnes