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

“What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong? “Or what if,” he went on, almost laughing at the absurdity, “they chose their own jobs?” “Frightening, isn’t it?” The Giver said. Jonas chuckled. “Very frightening.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“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