Sara Beth

“You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Well,” she said, “she keeps repeating how by Saturday night, she’ll finally be Mrs. Peter Dickman. As if changing her name is the finish line for a race she’s been in since she was six.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“She tensed her leg and arm muscles for ten seconds, holding her breath. Then she breathed out and let them relax. She did this exercise three times. She inhaled deeply to calm her body and trick it into sleeping.”
― Viveca Sten, Closed Circles

“They whooped as the rider pedaled faster, as if she were unraveling time itself, pushing forward as the passenger raised her hands above their heads, shields against the raging sun. More often than not, women demand this of each other, sustaining impossible positions to balance, finding equilibrium in the contortion.”
― Margot Douaihy, Scorched Grace