Bethany

“You're not better than anyone else on this crew. You cannot be. And you cannot want to be. If you are, you won't be prepared to do the hard stuff, if you're too worried about whether you're winning some imaginary race. It's about the collective, not the individual.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“My mom said that if I was going to be proud of myself for being generous, that I had to do it even when it meant I might lose something. She said, 'You have to have something on the line, for it to be called character.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“I was less surprised than the others, who had lived in a world where things used to make sense. But I had known only the absurd, and I think that made me profoundly different from them.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“Living in LA is like dating a really beautiful person who has nothing to say.' said Avery. "It's fine for a while because, you know, look at them, but eventually you're going to realize you need to be around people who read books and have their real noses.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters