Sarah AF

“Your life is here, now. You’re not about to live a tracing-paper copy of it.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“Their delusion is also tacit in the community heard defensive retort to Black Lives Matter that "all lives matter." Rather than being inclusive, "all" is a walled-off pronoun, a defensive measure to "not make it about race" so that the invisible hegemony of whiteness can continue unchallenged.”
― Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

“Yet again, the Queen’s inability to live without her male favourites was in evidence. As usual, she apportioned all blame to the female party.”
― Nicola Tallis, Elizabeth's Rival

“She is selling herself by the inch. The gentlemen all say you are advising her. She wants a present in cash for every advance above her knee.'
'Not like you, Mary. One push backwards and, good girl, here's your fourpence.'
'Well. You know. If king are doing the pushing." She laughs. "Anne has very long legs. By the time he comes to her secret part he will be bankrupt. The French wars will be cheap, in comparison.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall