Meg Gitlin

“How could a dance for elementary school students, hosted by the PTO, be sold out? On sale at noon, sold out five minutes later, in a town where not one woman she knows appears to have an actual job. Click, click, click. Lost to the stay-at-home moms. Maybe she should have paid more attention to that newsletter, with all of those technicalities about early ticket releases or whatever it had said.”
― Hannah Selinger, Valley of the Moms: A Novel

“The city provided a constant reminder that even at sunrise, after restless hours plagued by fears and failures, a new day was ready to assemble with or without you.”
― Lila Raicek, The Plunge

“For a certain kind of girl, with a certain kind of mother, an aunt would always be the preferred confidante. An aunt could see you as you were. A mother could only see you as she wished you were, or once imagined you would be.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions

“Kids were always doing that, surprising you with their overnight changes, breaking your heart with the reminders of how young and tender they still were.”
― Hannah Selinger, Valley of the Moms: A Novel