Riley

“Praise is just like an addiction. The more you get it, the more of it you need just to stay even.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I can’t rest until I’m done. I have to push her. I have to ask and be willing to be told no. I have to know my worth.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“And just as she was about to leave the microphone, she said, “And to anyone tempted to kiss the TV tonight, please don’t chip your tooth.” “Mom, why are you crying?” Connor asked. I put my hand to my face and realized that I had teared up. Harry smiled at me and rubbed my back. “You should call her,” he said. “It’s never a bad idea to bury hatchets.” Instead, I wrote a letter. My Dearest Celia, Congratulations! You absolutely deserve it. There is no doubt you are the most talented actress of our generation. I wish for nothing more than your complete and total happiness. I did not kiss the TV this time, but I did cheer just as loudly as I did the other times. All my love, Edward Evelyn”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“If it was cancer he was dying of, there'd be telethons.”

“People don't understand AIDS,” I said.

“They understand it just fine,” Celia said. “They just think that he deserves it because of how he got it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo