Scribner Books

“Napping is divine, but I no longer have all the time in the world.”
― Abigail Thomas, What Comes Next and How to Like It

“I should have smashed those spectacles to glass so fine he would never not remember how I ruined his vision - decisive, quick, imperative - and wrecked that world of his own making, its heroes, its scholars, it founding members, generals, politicians, row after row after row after row of men and not real and not true for me, for me, not how I was, or what I saw and thought. Not anything. I could have; I should have; I did not.

But I was fifteen. I could no more have formed those words, those thoughts, than flown to the moon.”
― Kate Walbert, His Favorites

“I used to get upset if somebody I didn't like loved a book I loved. That's MY book, I'd think.”
― Abigail Thomas, What Comes Next and How to Like It

“Maybe the world had been bad to its great and unusual women. Maybe there wasn’t a worthy place for the female hero to live out her golden years, to be celebrated as the men had been celebrated, to take from that celebration what she needed to survive.”
― Megan Mayhew Bergman, Almost Famous Women: Stories