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“When Molly was a baby, Sarah had felt as though she could have put her whole body in her mouth and eaten up the fruity little solidity of her. Watching Molly learn and grow was the purest delight Sarah had ever known — she surrendered to another female's glory, maybe even for the first time in her lite. But when Juliette had told Sarah she was pregnant again, with a boy of all things, Sarah had felt ransacked. A boy? Why the need for that?”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Slags

“I am made of memories.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“she wonders, as her feet pound the belt, why she is always trying so hard. Who she is trying for. Why everything matters, all of the time.”
― Claire Daverley, Talking at Night

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
― Jane Austen, Emma