Meg Gitlin

“Deep down, Sophie wasn’t moved by fame or, in honest truth, intimidated by the people who were famous in her world. No question, they were intrinsically better but, over time, fame made them worse.”
― Meg Mason, Sophie, Standing There: A Reese’s Book Club Pick

“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

“Nothing had just happened to her. She had made a choice and then she had made another and another after that. Taken together, the small choices anyone made added up to a life.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions

“She and Denny had chipped away at the rooms one at a time, building a Farrow & Ball fantasy: high-gloss, wallpaper, brushed brass, their living, breathing masterpiece, part of the pretension of existing in this wealthy New England town, where you had to dress up to walk the damn dog, for Christ’s sake.”
― Hannah Selinger, Valley of the Moms: A Novel