Suzy

“All her life, Elizebeth assumed that her restlessness was a defect that adulthood would somehow remove. She had called it “this little, elusive, buried splinter” and hoped for it to be “pricked from my mind.” But she was learning to see the splinter as a permanent piece of her, impossible to remove. “I am never quite so gleeful as when I am doing something labeled as an ‘ought not.’ Why is it? Am I abnormal? Why should something with a risk in it give me an exuberant feeling inside me? I don’t know what it is unless it is that characteristic which makes so many people remark that I should have been born a man.”
― Jason Fagone, The Woman Who Smashed Codes

“When I read a book it feels like real life and when I put the book down it’s like I go back into the dream.”
― Lisa Jewell, Then She Was Gone

“Pain, even in a marriage, was sometimes best felt alone.”
― Kia Abdullah, Next of Kin