emily

“He aches to think she has lived before him, that she exists apart from him.”
― Elizabeth Macneal, Circus of Wonders

“I pretend that I am simply captivated by Evelyn Hugo.
Because, despite everything, I still am.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Do you blame Shakespeare for any of it?”
The question is so unlikely, so nonsensical coming from such a sensible man, that I can’t suppress a smile. “I blame him for all of it.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“If they’d been at an out-of-control party in Compton, they would not have knocked. Leimert Park, Inglewood, Downtown, Koreatown, East L.A., Van Nuys, they would have walked right in. But this was Malibu, where the rich white people live. And rich white people get the benefit of the doubt and all of its many benefits.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising