Taylor Bush

“No, sweetheart." I push a lock of her hair back behind one of her ears before I can consider it or consider why I'm comfortable doing it. "I'd wager he just knew you were too far about him, so he tried to bring you to his level. By making things that light you up seem dim to him.”
― Tarah Dewitt, Savor It

“And I decided a long time ago that life being too short and too beyond my control meant that I'd let the small stuff feel big. To me, at least. If it's something that doesn't matter to most, I think that means someone's gotta care a little more, right?”
― Tarah Dewitt, Savor It

“Why is it that someone hugging you and holding you together can make you feel like you're about to shatter?”
― Tarah Dewitt, Savor It

“I object to this notion that it would be my highest purpose, or my only purpose. Because I don’t think it is. I think that I . . . I matter. A woman matters, married or not, children or no children. I matter, just as I am, right now. I’m a whole human being.”
― Evie Dunmore, The Gentleman's Gambit