Allie

“I spend time getting into shape; then something breaks, and then I spend time recovering and not being in shape; then I recover and I get into shape; then something new breaks.”
― Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck

“A lump forms in my throat as her pitying gaze meets mine in the mirror. She squeezes my hand, her eyes glistening. “When … when he comes to your bed, just do as he says, Princess. It will be easier.” I nod numbly, but inside I’m screaming. How many women before me were told the same thing? How many will come after?”
― Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

“the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read, but it doesn’t happen every time or even every other time, and when it does happen, I’m truly beside myself.”
― Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck

“I didn’t know much more than him telling Lucy she had some ’splaining to do. And I realized most of what I knew about Cuba, aside from recent headlines, I had learned from a man playing up stereotypes of a country he left as a teenager.”
― Sara Goodman Confino, Off the Record