Maud

“You’re a badass, hot-as-hell, fucking brilliant doctor, not some insecure high school girl. Man up!” “Do you know how rife with toxic masculinity the phrase man up is?” I challenged, mirroring her pose. “It implies that to be courageous is to be a man.” “Do you know how annoying it is when you change the subject?” Her tone was smug. “I’m just saying, we don’t need to insert men into every aspect of our language.” “Okay, ovary up. Fallopian forward. Vulva with a vengeance.”
― Denise Williams, How To Fail at Flirting

“He was basically a care-bear trapped in the body of an underwear model. I was confused by him for months. Why was he so bad at flirting? Why did he do all the things he said he was going to do? Why was he so damn happy all the time? What was I missing? I wasn’t going to fall for him, obviously, because it was too much. Where was the bullshit, the mindfuckery that made relationships so exciting and traumatic?”
― Emily Itami

“I love beautiful things, beautiful people, the magnetism of someone you can't take your eyes off of.”
― Emily Itami, Fault Lines

“She had that fire. She felt it. That was her worth. That was her value. She would fight for her loved ones. And she would fight for herself. Because she mattered.”
― Helen Hoang, The Bride Test