Becca Schmidt

“You shouldn’t be drinking alone, young lady.” And you shouldn’t be drinking while pregnant, I want to say, glancing down at his sizeable gut.”
― Brisa Carleton, Last Call at the Savoy

“Friends are like oxygen. If you’ve been blessed enough to have always been surrounded by friends, you might think I’m overplaying this. I don’t blame you. If you’d always been surrounded by air, you wouldn’t think to credit it for your very existence either.”
― Sally Hepworth, Mad Mabel

“Fair is where they sell cotton candy.”
― Ashley Elston, Anatomy of an Alibi

“And there is no greater love story than that of platonic female love. The kind of love I have with Daphne. We aren’t lesbians, before you start. Frankly, I find it appalling that people would assume such a thing—not that I take issue with lesbians, each to their own, I say, but because people have so little regard for female friendship that they can’t fathom a closeness such as we have without the romantic element. More fool them. There will be those”
― Sally Hepworth, Mad Mabel