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“MH turned to Sam. “When I turned 50, I was divorced, my son was grown up, and I realised I still had decades to go. It was the oddest thing - just as the culture began to lose interest in me, just as the world decided I was irrelevant, I began to feel more myself than ever. Louder, smarter, stronger. It felt truly adolescent, like I wanted to take drugs and drive fast and shave my head.”
― Wayward
― Wayward
“The Mid was the time when all her gestures feltunbearably sad and futile. And when heat suffocated her. Sam pulled at the neck of her T-shirt, pulled it down and away from her chest. Her body knew what was coming. Her heartbeat picked up speed. And then the hot. A sudden interior flame had bloomed in her., Her heart beat so fast she could hear it in her ears.”
― Wayward
― Wayward
“Sam knew that her love for Ally distorted the view of her. Sam was always shocked when the world didn’t fall out at Ally’s feet. Sometimes Sam wondered - if Ally was another person’s daughter, would I even like her? But she couldn’t actually imagine that. It was impossible for her brain to have perspective on her girl; it was like not being able to smell your own breath. The ferocity of Sam‘s attachment was what made Sam feel like herself.
From the moment Ally was born, pushed out of Sam‘s body (nothing could be more common that motherhood and yet nothing about it could ever ever be banal), Ally became Sam’s sun, Sam’s primary concern. She felt a directedness and a purpose and a meaning she had never experienced before. Another way of putting it: it was the least fake feeling she had ever had, the most earnest. Did all mothers feel this way? Did fathers feel this way? No, yes, doesn’t matter. On some level, It was Ally and then there was every other human on the earth.”
― Wayward
From the moment Ally was born, pushed out of Sam‘s body (nothing could be more common that motherhood and yet nothing about it could ever ever be banal), Ally became Sam’s sun, Sam’s primary concern. She felt a directedness and a purpose and a meaning she had never experienced before. Another way of putting it: it was the least fake feeling she had ever had, the most earnest. Did all mothers feel this way? Did fathers feel this way? No, yes, doesn’t matter. On some level, It was Ally and then there was every other human on the earth.”
― Wayward
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