Emily

“Why had they refused to see the myriad ways they could hurt each other? Why had they not paused to interrogate their differences in birth, in raising, that meant they were not and could never be on the same side?”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“I don’t think you turn thirty and become immune to mistake-making or lesson-learning. You grow wiser (supposedly) but never omniscient. There’s always something you need to be taught, and so you keep learning and you keep growing up—until you’re dead.”
― Jessica George, Maame

“He was determined to be delicate with the girl so as not to frighten her. “Are you a whore?” he asked.”
― Isabel Allende, Lovers at the Museum

“As Lewis held Wren’s hands, he thought of her kindness, her intelligence, her inner beauty. Yet, just as he married these known qualities, he also married her vast unknowns. And she, his.”
― Emily Habeck, Shark Heart