AJ

“Have you been into the school?” I manage. “Oh yes, several times. They’re doing their best, but like I said, it’s subtle. There’s only so much they can do. Friendship issues, they call it. Funny kind of friendship.”
― Laura Marshall, Friend Request

“But Jane had tried that with Mothers Group and failed. She just couldn’t relate to those bright, chatty women and their bubbly conversations about husbands who weren’t “stepping up” and renovations that weren’t finished before the baby was born and that hilarious time they were so busy and tired they left the house without putting on any makeup! (Jane, who was wearing no makeup at the time, and never wore makeup, had kept her face blank and benign, while she inwardly shouted: What the fuck?)”
― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

“Homes, Gamache knew, were a self-portrait. A person’s choice of color, furnishing, pictures.”
― Louise Penny, Still Life

“You are as real as anyone, and your doubts make you more real, not less.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down