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“She suggests Saving Face, but I let her know it’s already a movie.”
― Nicola Dinan, Bellies

“And I think Rory, who studied accounting at UT Austin and now does precisely that, has such a boring, cookie-cutter, picket-fence life that I’d rather claw out my eyeballs than live it.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

“Her skin was too tight, hot, itchy, and she wanted to strip it off, strip herself down, let Darcy see the full shape of her heart, messy and imperfect and with a space carved out, a space she’d been aching to fill for so long but no one ever fit, their angles too sharp, too rough, puzzle pieces never lining up right with hers. Elle had been waiting, waiting for the right person to come along who fit inside the space, that space inside her heart carved out just for them. For her person, not a perfect person, but a person perfect for her.”
― Alexandria Bellefleur, Written in the Stars

“No one had ever told me I was beautiful before. I leaned into Angela, and she leaned into me. We became two wood nymphs intertwined at Sappho’s feet, freezing into place like marble figurines.”
― Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion