Shelly

“You can’t just do what you want, she thought. Why should Mia get to, when no one else did?”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

“Choices, numberless as grains of sand, had layered and compressed, coalescing into sediment, then into rock, until all was set in stone.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“The summits were about ambitious topics, such as, recently, leadership—leadership being something that everyone now wanted, as if the world could be made up entirely of leaders and no followers, the way children might crave an all-fireman, all-ballerina society.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

“The good life demands a lot of maintenance.”
― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours