Paula Chadwick

“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

“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

“Child, hear me when I tell you memory matters. It is the anchor that keeps us tethered to substance, else we are powerless and set adrift.”
― Cebo Campbell, Sky Full of Elephants