Bernadette Marty

“Envy is like farts? BELLA. Everyone suffers from it. But, if you let it out . . . you don’t smell very nice. And everyone moves away from you.”
― Nina Raine, Rabbit

“To be in love was to understand how alone one had been before.”
― Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave is Forgiven

“Oh, you know. The lingering sensation that in pursuit of my own exacting goals and objectives I might not have been as generous in spirit as I could have been with regard to the needs and dreams of the people I cared most about or for whom I was emotionally responsible.”
― Chris Cleave, Gold

“Not much is known about pre-Internet courtship rituals. But presumably, if a twentieth-century male was in need of sexual release, he had no choice but to physically approach a female and, without any kind of warning, begin speaking to her. Needless to say, this must have been a highly upsetting experience for everyone involved. In order to mitigate the horror of the situation, primitive humans relied on a poison known as beer (figure 1) to damage their brains to the point of near unconsciousness.”
― Simon Rich, Man Seeking Woman (originally published as The Last Girlfriend on Earth): And Other Love Stories