Natalee Nassar

“It struck me that she had been a pretty woman, once upon a time. Before she’d decided she didn’t want to be anymore. Before she’d decided she didn’t want to be anything to anybody.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Stay

“There is honor in having a profession, in not being idle. They had no money; there is no dishonor in being poor. I am glad you told me about them.”
― Lydia Kang, Opium and Absinthe

“Here I was trying to find a way home—and by home what I meant was that feeling I belonged.”
― Neda Toloui-Semnani, They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents

“Life is sometimes using a knife to comb your hair, because absolutely nothing else works, and life always finds a way through.”
― Meg Elison, Find Layla