Taylor Bush

“Being forced to grow up too quickly into my emotional maturity means I surely missed developing some of it somewhere, which seems to manifest itself in me forever endeavoring to be important to someone or something. . . I say yes too easily to people for fear of abandonment if I'm not useful.”
― Tarah Dewitt, Savor It

“If I were the only person in the world,” she said to the ceiling, “how would I even know I was a woman? Who would tell me? Who would make me? I would just be me. Why can’t I just be me?” The earl was quiet for a moment. “An interesting hypothesis,” he then allowed. “But no one is ever just themselves.”
― Evie Dunmore, The Gentleman's Gambit

“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

“I'm rapidly wearing out, like even though it's surprising in a way that feels nice, this friendliness is also physically exerting.”
― Tarah Dewitt, Savor It