Karen

“A high percentage of middle-aged women eschew new partners because their previous ones have been awful to them. Why invite another man to mistreat them? Besides the fact that when we go through a terrible loss, whether it’s from divorce or death, it brings into sharp focus what you have neglected to do for yourself in deference to another.”
― Brenda Trim, Mind Over Magical Matters

“Worry and trouble weighed heavily on the hands of her clock, rushing time along.”
― V.C. Andrews, Rain