Amy Benson

“They call this Mother Nature, but they are wrong. Oh, not about her being female. That’s true enough. Nature is a right cruel bitch. But she isn’t your mother—she’s an old lover and she intends to make you pay for your indifference. Bed her once and she’ll punish you for the rest of your life.”
― Ariel Lawhon, The Pirate Queen

“Every family has its smart-ass.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Loving a wife is one thing. Loving a daughter is something else entirely. How is he supposed to contain all this pride and fear in a single heart? He could burst from the pressure.”
― Ariel Lawhon, The Pirate Queen

“She has seen the spectacular shimmering blue of the seven oceans from two hundred miles away. Cerulean? Cobalt? Ultramarine? There was no shade vivid enough that she could name. Ninety-nine point nine percent of human beings who have ever lived have never seen that blue. And she has.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere