Chrissy

“What made them think this was okay?” Emily assesses me with a gimlet eye. “May I assume you didn’t put one of them in a choke hold and say, ‘This is not fucking acceptable,’ but instead you tried to peace keep in a situation where you were the victim?” “Ah, I see you’ve met me.”
― Jen Lancaster, The Anti-Heroes

“Yes, I detested him. But I was still glad he was alive. Maybe “glad” was a bit strong. I broadly supported the concept of him continuing to exist.”
― Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers

“All the best new seasons started this way, didn’t they? With a messy, muddy cleanse, stretches of dreariness, all that fallen dead brush to clear. And then one day the whole world was transformed, full of color and sun. New life budding even now, in the rain. Because of the rain.”
― Jessica Strawser, The Last Caretaker