Hailey Vandermyde

“All that noise. All those people. Tune ’em out. You’re not a flower that needs to be watered with validation”
― Meredith Trapp, Homebound: A Novel

“It feels like we’ve dipped into a seventh circle of couples’ hell on the verge of a basketball-themed orgy, and I’m just trying to keep my head afloat.”
― Meghan Quinn, Till Summer Do Us Part

“I’m going to love her in all the quiet ways, the slow ways, the loud and obnoxious ways.”
― B.K. Borison, Lovelight Farms

“You build what you want to build, offer it as widely as you can to whoever you think will appreciate it, and if other people like it or don’t like it… that’s on them. Not you.”
She thought of Ethan. That sentence shouldn’t have applied to him, but… it kind of did. He hadn’t wanted what she built. And that was on him.
Jack laughed at something one of the guests said, and Calisa peeked again into the sitting room. He was chatting with the guests as he served cake to Zef. He likes me as I am. He saw her as she was. He listened to her. He never tried to change her. He’s what I need and want.
As if he sensed her watching, he looked over. Calisa met his eyes and smiled, and he smiled back, instantly and fully, like he’d been ready and waiting for her to notice him.
“I think I understand,” Calisa said to Auntie Zee.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Faraway Inn