Maureen

“My mother had modeled for me early on that the quickest route to unhappiness was to pay too much attention to anyone’s disapproval, particularly someone that you barely knew.”
― Laura Dave, The Night We Lost Him

“The fact that his ire was aimed not at them, but at some nearby object that confounded him didn’t make it any easier to ignore; for quiet people, raised voices are experienced as a kind of aggression even when directed elsewhere.”
― Clare Chambers, Shy Creatures

“The writer writes the words. The given reader reads the words. And the book, the unique and unrepeatable book, doesn’t exist until the given reader meets the writer on the page.”
― Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

“I liked being pregnant. I was good at it. Joe and I had decided that two was the right number of children, but once we’d had them for a while, we wanted more….a terrible extravagance we could in no way afford, but we did it anyway.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake