Ashley Higgins

“As if it's Vera's fault that no one pays attention to the sounds of her life.”
― Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

“Theo had only ever loved Carla. There were women before, and there had been the occasional one since, but Carla was without question, the one. The one and the many he supposed, because there was this Carla, and there was the previous Carla. It seemed as though over the course of his life, he’d known multiple Carlas and loved them all, would continue to love them in whatever reincarnation they appeared.”
― Paula Hawkins, A Slow Fire Burning

“Women are taught that it is noble to lose themselves inside their marriage. To give up everything for home and children, even themselves. I often wonder how many stories, how many scientific breakthroughs, how many plays, musical scores, and innovations, have been tossed onto the pyre of human marriage.”
― Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

“We are afraid of dying alone, but no one really knows lonely better than a married woman sitting next to her silent husband.”
― Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life