Heather

“I’m going to kill him!” Dad yells while Mom tries to push him out of the room. “I’m going to skin him alive and hang his hide over my office window as a curtain!” “Don’t mind him,” my mom chirps, grinning at us over her shoulder. “He’s just really excited about the news and can’t find words to express his happiness. Aren’t you, kotik?”
― Neva Altaj, Beautiful Beast

“I did know, however, that there is something about you. That you tirelessly study people. Figure out who they are, what they want, and then mold yourself into whatever shape you think will fit them. I’ve seen you play half a dozen different roles for half a dozen different situations, switching personalities like you’re channel surfing, and I still have no idea who you are. So I think it’s within my right to be concerned for my brother. And I think it’s within my right to be curious about you.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

“Sometimes, deciding on what to eat felt like the biggest decision of her life, the endless options overwhelming her, swarming her brain in a dysfunctional tangle of choices, until she knew she’d make the wrong decision regardless and just blurted out the next thing her eyes landed on.”
― Mazey Eddings, Lizzie Blake's Best Mistake

“Uterus. You made reference to it with the ill-advised hysterics comment. You are aware that the word hysterical comes from the Latin root word meaning uterus, based on the odd notion that insanity in women is brought on by a wandering uterus.” Marchford stared at her and said nothing. “A strange idea indeed, for everyone knows insanity in women is clearly caused by men.”
― Amanda Forester, A Winter Wedding