Phil

“The thing that really gets me,” she said, “is that the worst kind of man, the kind that you would never allow yourself to be alone with, because you would know he was a danger to you, was left alone with all of us.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

“By the end of the war there was nothing about men and women that surprised him. Nothing about anything really. The whole edifice of civilization turned out to be constructed from an unstable mix of quicksand and imagination.”
― Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins

“I learned for the first time that when we lose the people closest to us, we tend to become more like them—as if to fill immediately the unbearable lack they have left behind.”
― Liz Rosenberg, The Moonlight Palace

“At such hours there was a democracy of loneliness; one felt the smog of it to be equitably distributed. Lucy”
― Victor Lodato, Edgar and Lucy