Paula Chadwick

“I’m always suspicious of people who openly worship their families. Protecting your family—fine. But blatant reverence? Seems like a cover-up, or maybe it’s just a sign of stupidity…”
― Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

“Few things in life are as fundamentally satisfying as good, quick sex followed by a meal of mostly salty cheese.”
― Jo Piazza, The Sicilian Inheritance

“But the quickest way to make an attractive man ugly was to give him too much to drink. Drunk men frightened her. She had learned young how to coddle them, how to laugh just enough at their bad jokes to prevent them from feeling insulted, but not so much that her laughter egged them on. Coiled just below a surface of good humor lay their strength and their meanness, two guns waiting to go off.”
― Liz Moore, The God of the Woods