Laurel Farrell

“Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.”
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

“Once again I glimpsed the way in which departure ripped the veil from ordinary life, revealing things that were normally kept hidden.”
― Margot Livesey, The Flight of Gemma Hardy

“This is why the "apply some principles" approach to marriage improvement doesn't work. So long as we choose to turn a blind eye to how we are fallen as men or women, and to the unique style of relating that we have forged out of our sin and brokenness, we will continue to do damage to our marriages.”
― John Eldredge, Love and War: Finding the Marriage You've Dreamed Of

“The story we are told of women is not this one. The story of women is the story of love, of foundering into another. A slight deviation: longing to founder and being unable to. Being left alone in the foundering, and taking things into one’s own hands: rat poison, the wheels of a Russian train. Even the smoother and gentler story is still just a modified version of the above. In the demotic, in the key of bougie, it’s the promise of love in old age for all the good girls of the world.”
― Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies