Mary

“You wanted to cry. You knew you would not come back, would never see her again. These tiny endings are all over the place.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Ghost Lover

“The affair might be over, I thought, but something being over is not the same as something never having happened.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“You're a small thing and you must learn to fight.”
― Miriam Toews, Fight Night

“How's conquering the world going, my sweet ruthless girl?' in the delighted dumbed-down tone you would use to tell a house pet it was ferocious. She would nuzzle him, beginning to understand that just because he didn't see something in her didn't mean it wasn't there, knowing there was still some freedom in the way he did not fathom yet how real and how necessary her ruthlessness would be.”
― Danielle Evans