Danielle Strozyk

“It might seem simple but if you want to do it right there’s a lot to learn and fast.”
Just like fishtail braids and blowjobs. And I was really only good at one of those things.
“I am always up for a challenge” I said, flipping my perfect fishtail braid over my shoulder.”
― Lindsey Kelk, On a Night Like This

“Dogs are stupid,” Rusty said. “This is a known fact. But a cat—you have to earn a cat’s respect every single day of your life. You lose it and—” He snapped his fingers. “That’s what your mama was to me. She was my cat. She kept my compass pointing true north.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Good Daughter

“We aren’t freshly blooming flowers, we’re two trees with intertwined roots, you’ve grown old within me.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“Men don’t know, she thinks, they don’t know how having a baby makes you protective of your skin, your body, your space. When you spend all day giving yourself to a baby in every way that it’s possible to give yourself to another human being, the last thing you want at the end of the day is a grown man wanting you to give him things too. Men don’t know how the touch of a hand against the back of your neck can feel like a request, not a gesture of love, how emotional issues become too cumbersome to deal with, how their love for you is too much sometimes, just too much. Kim sometimes thinks that women practise being mothers on men until they become actual mothers, leaving behind a kind of vacancy.”
― Lisa Jewell, The Night She Disappeared