Touchstone Books

“The great reward given to intelligent people is that they can invent all the rules and equate any dissent with stupidity.”
― Catherine Lowell, The Madwoman Upstairs

“I tried to compete with my ill-fitting Calvin Klein button-up shirts that I got at Ross and my imitation mini-ish skirts I got from the DEB. If you’re not familiar with DEB, it’s like the trashy stepsister of Forever 21 that takes F21 out for her twenty-first birthday, pumps her full of Jell-O shots, and convinces her to get a bald-eagle tattoo.”
― Grace Helbig, Grace & Style: The Art of Pretending You Have It

“His expression was impassive. Somewhere, I just knew, he must have a slew of illegitimate children, all named Bartholomew.”
― Catherine Lowell, The Madwoman Upstairs

“A new adaptation of Jane Eyre came out every year, and every year it was exactly the same. An unknown actress would play Jane, and she was usually prettier than she should have been. A very handsome, very brooding, very 'ooh-la-la' man would play Rochester, and Judi Dench would play everyone else.”
― Catherine Lowell, The Madwoman Upstairs