Nancy Jo

“We are all living, at most, half of a life, she thought. There was the life you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Stop clipping leaves off this malignant tree and start hacking at its roots.”
― Sarah A. Parker, When the Moon Hatched

“In the distance, she heard her husband in the backyard call for her, but she was not that woman anymore, that mother and wife. She was Nightbitch, and she was fucking amazing. It seemed she had been waiting for this for a very, very long time.”
― Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

“It rains incessantly and yet I never knew an Oregonian to carry an umbrella.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart