Josephine Ross

“It seemed to her that she’d been smoking in order to get through the days, not that her days were ornamented by cigarettes.”
― Eve Babitz, Sex and Rage

“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“And how easily a hand becomes a fist.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“It was all gone. She knew she’d never be able to see Dobson & Dalloway for the first time, she’d never get scared of Wally Moss and hide in the ladies’ room putting on lip gloss, she’d never be able to not go someplace because Max was there . . . And she’d never ever see New York in this euphoric condition. And she and Wini would probably never have dinner on Fifty-second Street in that Japanese restaurant for as long as they lived. The first time was all gone.”
― Eve Babitz, Sex and Rage