Karen

“Hold tight to the world and do not let go and do not fuck this up.”
― Gabriel Tallent, My Absolute Darling

“The smell of coffee, white dust, tobacco and burnt bread, flowers with a fragrance of wine, and the crimson fruit, soft and overripe. A girl looking over her bare shoulder, with a flash of a smile, gold ear-rings showing from thick black hair brushed away from her face, long arms, a cigarette between her lips. Night like a great dark blanket, voices murmuring at a street corner, the air warm with tired flowers, and a hum from the sea.”
― Daphne du Maurier, I'll Never Be Young Again

“He smiled. 'Now I have you in a cage.And whenever I want you,I'll take you out, and when I've done with you, I'll set you back in.”
― Judith Rossner, Emmeline

“She looked at him with so much love that I had to turn away. At least I know what love looks like, I told myself. That's something. No one had ever looked at me like that, but I'd be able to recognize it if they ever did.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine