Becca

“His face did not move her. There was little in him she wanted to know.”
― Mary Costello, Academy Street

“Under the still surface of the day she saw turmoil everywhere.”
― Mary Costello, Academy Street

“What kind of scripture and, really, what kind of God, can't stand up to the questioning of mere mortals like us?”
― Sarah McCammon, The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

“Thirty-six is an age one looks back on as young. But at the time, living in thirty-six-year-old skin, it doesn't feel young. Women start believing themselves old so soon, don't they? Agatha didn't realize it was her youth that allowed her to sit for hours in that comfortless rock of a chair, staring at her pages without need of spectacles, nary a twinge from the small of her back. One day far into the future she would look back on this time in her life and understand she had not been old, or even middle-aged, but young, with the bulk of her life ahead of her, not to mention the best of it.”
― Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair