Ashley Hoover

“You can see the fracture lines in people sometimes, if you search hard enough. You can see where they’ve broken and tried to mend themselves.”
― Joanna Cannon, Three Things About Elsie

“I’m not scared of flying. I’m scared of sharks, hurricanes, and false imprisonment. I’m scared that I will never do anything of value with my life.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life

“When I was young, women were raped on the campus of a great university and the authorities responded by telling all the women students not to go out alone after dark or not to be out at all. Get in the house. (For women, confinement is always waiting to envelope you.) Some pranksters put up a poster announcing another remedy, that all men be excluded from campus after dark. It was an equally logical solution, but men were shocked at being asked to disappear, to lose their freedom to move and participate, all because of the violence of one man.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

“Maybe one day, we'll get the timing right. Maybe this is the middle of a longer love story.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life