Emily

“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride

“But I know you. You will be alright.”
― Sydney Smith, Small in the City

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Nothing sounds better tonight than living my small life well.”
― Emily Henry, A Million Junes