Suzi Reads

“How did a woman pretend that the events happening around her did not affect her?”
― Sofía Segovia, The Murmur of Bees

“She preferred to be ignored. At her age, she reckoned, with the things her eyes had seen, her ears had heard, her mouth spoken, her skin felt, and her heart suffered, she had been through enough to make anyone weary. She couldn’t explain why she was still alive or what she was waiting for before she departed, since she was no longer of any use to anybody and her body had dried up, so she preferred not to see or be seen, not to hear, not to speak, and not to feel.”
― Sofía Segovia, The Murmur of Bees

“Such an ass. But he’s good in bed, like most assholes.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“A man who is willing to cheat on his wife, she said, will often make promises to you that he can’t keep. When he tells you he loves you, it’s a form of entrapment. Cheating spouses are masters at manipulation, she said. He may tell you things to keep you from ending the affair. He has both a wife and a lover on the side. He has no incentive to change.”
― Mary Kubica, The Other Mrs.