Tricia

“If you want something, you ask for it. You told me so, before. Is that always how you get what you want?” Joss shrugged. “You don’t get what you want by not asking for it.” Gareth contemplated the obvious truth of that statement. “I may have to change my approach to life.”
― K.J. Charles, The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen

“Defining the Problem

I can't forgive you. Even if I could,
You wouldn't pardon me for seeing through you.
And yet I cannot cure myself of love
For what I thought you were before I knew you.”
― Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns

“There was nothing more dangerous than a woman with a pen in her hand.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

“To live for your children seems a normal thing, a respectable one; to live because of your children is something else.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore