Missie

“the worst thing I could imagine was her being taken from me.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“In the Cone family, there was no such thing as containment. Feelings were splattered around the household with the intensity of a spraying fire house. I was terrified of what I might witness or hear tonight. But along with that terror, my fondness for the Cones only grew. To feel something was to feel alive. And to feel alive was starting to feel like love.”
― Jessica Anya Blau, Mary Jane

“We'd learned about the Holocaust in school, just like we'd learned about the civil rights movement. What we'd never learned was that sometimes the people who kept those ideas alive were the people you lived with.”
― Jessica Anya Blau, Mary Jane

“There's another self that I sometimes feel I lost along the way. The girl who always stayed for one more drink, who loved a dance. I miss her, sometimes.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List