Rain

“And years of seeing the glazed-over boredom on men’s faces when she talked to them had reduced Evie’s self-confidence to a crumb of what it should have been. However, Sebastian listened closely to everything she said, as if he found her endlessly interesting. He encouraged her to say daring things, and he seemed to delight in her attempts to spar with him.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Winter

“in an ideal world, you’d have more than one mother figure to turn to if one was as abhorrent as the woman you came out of. And that way, old chickens like me could help raise children even if we couldn’t have them ourselves.”
― Eve Dangerfield, So Hectic: Silver Daughters Ink, Book #3

“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.” Mary Oliver, Wild Geese”
― Eve Dangerfield, So Steady

“Everyone needs editing,” she said, her smile broadening with each word. “Well, except me, I guess,” she teased. “Or maybe I did need it,” she added with a shrug. “We’ll never know, because I had no one to edit me.”
― Julia Quinn, Romancing Mister Bridgerton