Catalina

“I wish I’d done everything on earth with you, she says. The street is quiet. No cars, or closing doors. Just them, and her voice, on the linen-dry wind. It’s not mine, she says. The quote. But it’s beautiful, isn’t it? He nods, but barely, because he is not used to such talk. And I feel it, Rosie says, still with that smile of hers. I was just thinking that I feel it.”
― Claire Daverley, Talking at Night

“She terrifies him, and he loves her so much it hurts.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Drowning Faith

“Her mind was an immense feral country that spilled its borders.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings

“I tried for so long to belong, to be as they needed me to be. Now I wish to be myself.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings