Emily

“By the same token, I think it's time that we allow ourselves to experience real anger as women. And I don't mean that passive aggressive dance that we've employed for too many years. It's not real anger if it is implied or a few degrees removed, if it takes the form of whispering, or cold shoulders, or silent treatment. Real anger is what popular culture would have us be afraid of, based on the fact that it is not courteous, elegant, or feminine.”
― Koren Zailckas, Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

“I mean, why? Why did I go on believing? Did it make sense? Why did I go on thinking, even when [he] slammed me around, that if you are good enough, patient enough, for long enough, your reward will come?”
― Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now

“Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“...she sometimes makes me think of a planet rocketing along in a parallel universe”
― Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now