“If you swapped out all my Jessicas for Johns, do you know what you'd get? Fiction. Just fiction. Ready and willing to be read by anyone, but somehow by being a woman who writes about women, I've eliminated half the Earth's population from my potential readers, and you know what? I don't feel ashamed of that. I feel pissed.”
― Beach Read
― Beach Read
“When I watch you sleep," he said shakily, "I feel overwhelmed that you exist.”
― Beach Read
― Beach Read
“And that was the moment I realized: when the world felt dark and scary, love could whisk you off to go dancing; laughter could take some of the pain away; beauty could punch holes in your fear. I decided then that my life would be full of all three.”
― Beach Read
― Beach Read
“Here's the thing about writing Happily Ever Afters: it helps if you believe in them.”
― Beach Read
― Beach Read
“That’s the key to marriage. You have to keep falling in love with every new version of each other, and it’s the best feeling in the whole world.”
― Beach Read
― Beach Read
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