Inside My Library Mind

“I could never really get it. I could never really understand. But I could strive for empathy. I could at least do that.”
― Emma Mills, First & Then

“That was part of being a girl--you were resigned to whatever feedback you'd get. If you got mad, you were crazy, and if you didn't react, you were a bitch. The only thing you could do was smile from the corner they'd backed you into. Implicate yourself in the joke even if the joke was always on you.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls

“From the day she had stabbed Aeduan in the heart, that heart had become hers—and she would not let this be his end.”
― Susan Dennard, Bloodwitch

“That's the choice. I love him, with all that, because of all that. On purpose. I love him on purpose.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue