Marianne

“It was one thing to read about a society obsessed with female purity—quite another to find yourself living in one.”
― Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

“Everything goes away, Jack Sawyer, like the moon. Everything comes back, like the moon.”
― Stephen King, The Talisman

“Everything she knew came from living on the scarce side of mercy.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings

“So the sad thing was that if I—the fifty-nine-year-old Barbara—died, she died too: the girl who had written these things so long ago. That’s who, or what, I was determined to save, because if I have any core identity, any central theme that has survived all the apparent changes of subject, the secret of it lies with her.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything