Elizabeth D

“How were you supposed to change- in ways both big and small- when your family was always there to remind you of exactly the person you apparently signed an ironclad contract to be?”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“She could never feel love for him. Love was what she felt for birds—a free gift, unrequired, unrequited, invulnerable.”
― Sylvia Townsend Warner, Kingdoms of Elfin

“I’m not a bitch though; or maybe I’m just a quiet one inside my own head. Isn’t everyone?”
― Josie Silver, One Day in December

“- Still reading, Miss St John? You read a lot, don't you?
- It saves me from conversation.”
― Sylvia Townsend Warner, Winter in the Air