Janice Charles

“This is the terrible thing about a tragedy. It isn’t with you every minute. You forget it, and then you remember it again. And you see it with a stark quality: This is what is required of you now, just to get along.”
― Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me

“There was comfort in words, in the solidity of them.”
― Jennifer Banash, The Rise and Fall of Ava Arcana

“She collected grudges and heartaches the way she’d once collected Barbies, never sharing, never abandoning.”
― Kristin Hannah, Summer Island

“Movie people refer to that moment in the script when the main character hits rock bottom as the act two crisis. Romeo is dead. Jaws just ate the captain and first mate, and the killer shark is circling your sinking boat. In the last forty-eight hours, I’d lost a potential boyfriend, a dream casting, and the roommate who had supported me both emotionally and financially for the last seven years. If this wasn’t my personal act two crisis, I didn’t know what was. The only question was whether the hero in my narrative was going to rise up and kill that shark, or succumb to defeat like poor jilted Juliet.”
― Susan Walter, Over Her Dead Body