Luisa

“I had never seen anyone like her. That was the thing. No woman had ever been as definite, as robust. No woman, no man, nobody had ever been so much like themselves as she was.”
― Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life

“Luckily, I did not need to be pretty. My body was built to wage war.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“What is the word, Judith asks her mother, for someone who was a twin but is no longer a twin?”
― Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

“She has always cried such enormous tears, like heavy pearls, quite at odds with the slightness of her frame.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet