Annemarie

“She’d been prepared for death. Death was to be expected on the outside. A normal consequence of being tossed into the Death Shop. But no matter how she looked at it, menstruating was utterly barbaric.”
― Veronica Rossi, Under the Never Sky

“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Kitty did in fact conceal her new views and feelings from her mother. She concealed them not because she did not respect or did not love her mother, but simply because she was her mother. She would have revealed them to anyone sooner than to her mother.”
― Leo Tolstoi, Anna Karenina

“But you have the nimble mind and quick fancy of youth, turning over from the thing that is half done to a further task beyond.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel