Lauren

“What he didn’t do was control me, or try to mold me into a little wife, some old-fashioned, muted version of who I was. I saw many men do that to many women I knew. They would choose these vibrant, talented, beautiful women, and suck the life and passion and beauty out of them by bullying them into submission.”
― Jane Green, The Sunshine Sisters

“The fact that she had once convinced herself to kiss a person like Ryan now nauseated her, and made her hate him with the fiercer intensity of putrefied lust. They”
― Lindsey Lee Johnson, The Most Dangerous Place on Earth

“Love is love, Nell, in whatever form or shape it comes and those of us who have found it must not let anything get in the way.”
― Jane Green, The Sunshine Sisters

“I have said before: It interests me how we find ways to feel superior to another person, another group of people. It happens everywhere, and all the time. Whatever we call it, I think it’s the lowest part of who we are, this need to find someone else to put down.”
― Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton