Kayla Rose

“She always had something to add. Maybe she should try more nodding instead.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Pumpkin Spice Café

“I’m in love with someone I was told would hurt me if I stayed with him so I didn’t and I should have and now, everything’s a fucking mess.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks

“Is this what she’d been missing? Soft, quiet moments in the early morning hours. She wanted to hold onto it, but she didn’t know how. She’d never been able to before. Her life was fast and noisy, and she’d dived into it without really thinking. Life had just happened to her.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Pumpkin Spice Café

“Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality, in which authors Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá discuss the evolution of monogamy as being relatively recent in human history.”
― Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy