Abby

“I wish my dad had walked out on us.'
'You don't mean that.'
'I do. He was a dad to remember, not to keep; he still is.”
― Laia Jufresa, Umami

“...so I looked myself in the mirror for something to do, occupied sufficiently by the brandy's effects and the heightened sense of myself I always get alone in somebody else's bathroom. I saw myself in character, the girl from work here at a time like this.”
― Agnes Rossi, The Quick: A Novella and Stories

“Everything her mother did was what she thought was best, as all mothers do - invisible service in the shadows of the things for which they themselves had longed.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

“Imagination is kinda like ...
a torch.
So we can remember what is true.
- In the cave of any faith.
Definitely.”
― Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War