Erica

“My phone doesn’t ring often—it makes me jump when it does—and it’s usually people asking if I’ve been mis-sold Payment Protection Insurance. I whisper I know where you live to them, and hang up the phone very, very gently.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“Food has powers. It picks us up from our lonely corners and sits us back down, together. It pulls us out of ourselves, to the kitchen, to the table, to the diner down the block. At the same time, it draws us inward. Food is the keeper of our memories, connecting us with our pasts and with our people.”
― Jessica Fechtor, Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home

“I’ve never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You’d think they were diamonds.” “Well, they are, aren’t they?”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“And then we do a much greater disservice to girls, because we raise them to cater to the fragile egos of men.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists