Touchstone Books

“My father used to say that all protagonists were versions of the author who wrote them—even if it meant the author had to acknowledge a side of himself that he did not know existed. It just required courage.”
― 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

“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

“The curtains were blood-red and drawn. This was not an office. It was a small library, two storeys high, with thin ladders and impractical balconies and an expansive ceiling featuring a gaggle of naked Greeks. It was the sort of library you'd marry a man for.”
― Catherine Lowell, The Madwoman Upstairs