j e w e l s

“One of the things that happens to people as they get older, and especially to women on the other side of middle age, is that people forget to notice.”
― Peter Heller, Celine

“The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even as a child, as far back as she could remember, she had done nothing but endure.”
― Han Kang, The Vegetarian

“Her hand was like a bundle of chopsticks covered in a layer of tissue paper.”
― Peter Swanson, Her Every Fear

“It’s the panic that gets you. Makes it hard to trust what you’re seeing.”
― Jane Harper, Force of Nature