Lauren

“This baby name May Ling. Please take this baby and give her a better life. That first night, when the baby had finally fallen asleep in their laps, Mr. and Mrs. McCullough spent two hours flipping through the name dictionary. It had not occurred to them, then or at any point until now, to regret the loss of her old name.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

“You've read to many romance novels.' 'And you haven't read enough.”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, Undercover Bromance

“The very things that first draw you to a person will eventually be the very things that drive you away.”
― Megan Abbott, The Turnout

“So-called Tiger Moms have often been demonized in the press, framed as crass, domineering, and un-American for their single-mindedness in preparing their children for college. Yet “good” Americans—which is to say, upper-middle-class white Americans—do the same thing. They simply cloak conversations about college in the rhetoric of “happiness” and “fit” and “fulfilling one’s potential.” It’s less crass. But it’s still bullshit.”
― Anne Helen Petersen