Beth Ratcliffe

“You want a metaphor for it? Alright, here goes. I come from a good family, everyone knows that. My parents were great, roof over my head. I never wanted for much, really, and still. She’s the only home I’ve ever been interested in having. Her body is the walls, heart’s the ceiling. I’ll live here forever.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: Into the Dark

“Pages and words and information. Her favorite things.”
― Julie Soto, Rose in Chains

“When I let myself dream,” he murmurs against my ear, “or it all comes crashing down—it’s Alice, Alice on my mind. Alice all the time.”
― Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life

“She is the goddess in the Botticelli clam shell, her eyes are the waterlilies in Monet’s pond, she is the hand of God reaching down to mankind. Klimt’s kiss is a portrait of us and I’m gonna steal it. Take it, make it mine, make her mine too.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing