Stevie Barile

“Her father once told her casually that she was built like a plum on toothpicks, and the phrase was at once so cruel and so poetic that it clicked into place around her like a harness. • • •”
― Liz Moore, The God of the Woods

“But the quickest way to make an attractive man ugly was to give him too much to drink.”
― Liz Moore, The God of the Woods

“Being humorless, she thought, was even worse than being dumb.”
― Liz Moore, The God of the Woods

“Do you ever worry that being born into money has stunted us?” Alice blanched. “I don’t mean anything by it,” said Delphine. “It’s just—lately I’ve been wondering whether having all of our material needs met from birth has been a positive aspect of our lives. It seems to me it may have resulted in some absence of yearning or striving in us. The quest, I like to call it. When one’s parents or grandparents have already quested and conquered, what is there for subsequent generations to do?”
― Liz Moore, The God of the Woods