Laura Stout

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“when you have no power in this world you must create your own, you must adapt to your environment and try to foil the many dangers around you, so a woman’s pleasantness—her smile, her grace, her cheer, her sweetness, her perfumed body, her carefully made-up face—isn’t some silly by-product of fashions or tastes; it is a means of survival. The performance may cripple us, but it keeps us alive.”
― Frances de Pontes Peebles, The Air You Breathe

“The lies we tell for love are the lightest shade of white.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“Once you name something, it stops you seeing the whole of it, or why it matters.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient