Marty Button

“When there's people around that we don't trust, we let them think we're the kinds of people who are allowed to exist. And the only kind of Librarian that's allowed to exist is one who answers to she.”
― Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted

“Show me these admiring men you speak of, she wanted to say. In fact, show me a single man who's ever considered me anything other than a handful. She was too intelligent, too impulsive, too iron-willed for most.”
― Samuel Burr, The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

“Like lots of other women her age, she’d had to decide between building a family or a career, unlike men, who miraculously managed to have both.”
― Samuel Burr, The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

“What happened is baked into your bones, Edward. It lives under your skin. It’s not going away. It’s part of you and will be part of you every moment until you die. What you’ve been working on, since the first time I met you, is learning to live with that.”
― Ann Napolitano, Dear Edward