Julie

“And no boy I wanted to kiss wanted to kiss me, so I might as well have stayed in Stanmore and continued to enjoy a series of fantasy relationships played out in the fecund lands of my imagination.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“And then I cry. Mostly for Rebecca and the tiny, unwanted beating heart deep within her womb. But also for myself. And our daughters. And for every other woman who lives, suffers, and dies by the mercurial whims of men.”
― Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River

“Wintering is a season in the cold. It is a fallow period in life when you’re cut off from the world, feeling rejected, sidelined, blocked from progress, or cast into the role of an outsider.”
― Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

“Jess, but at this point is it even ethical to be dating him?”
― Cecilia Rabess, Everything's Fine