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“Mother’s gone is a fact coursing through me. Turned to foam. And somehow I’m alive still.”
― Mona Awad, Rouge

“That was what scared me most, that the thing that I had been working toward so harshly was something that, in a split second, I didn’t even care about.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“Hope is a weed that Marva nurtures in the shade. Have faith, she entreats. Never give up, she pleads,”
― Mona Awad, Rouge

“I’d gone through the worst day of my life by myself, and I came out the other side a person who survived it. That was not something to fix. I didn’t need to be fixed. I just needed . . . to be reminded that I was human. And dinner with a stranger who didn’t look at me like I was broken had been a surprisingly good start.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip