Mariana

“She was someone else, and what was happening was not real. She’d thought that things like this did not happen to girls like her, though maybe they did. A teacher in grade school had told her that if she went looking for trouble, trouble would find her, and Mallory wondered now whether this was the point at which she and trouble met in the middle”
― Michelle Hart

“Do I have to smash a glass over the head of every single man I come into contact with, just so I leave a fucking mark?”
― Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

“All these years, they’ve been like two little plants sharing the same plot of soil, growing around one another, contorting to make room, taking certain unlikely positions.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“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.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read