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“That was it. The bracket of her bent leg against the stones. The way her mouth angled around the cigar in a grimace that was almost a smile. The sight of a woman in a well-tailored jacket and trousers. Unexpected, unimagined. A prickling sensation. A stomach-dropping, blood-fizzing, breath-stopping, knotted lurch-and-swoop that I recognized, by then, as the first faltering step towards falling in love.”
― Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life

“In life my mother had ably shielded me from rejection, from the callous and cold detachment of this man. And I had been safe with her warmth to sorround me. But in dying, she coukd not absorb this hurt for me anymore.”
― Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

“(...) thought of all that could be done between two women in possession of bodies, what effects could be achieved with fingers and tongues.”
― Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life

“There have been a few moments like that on my journey - times when I've wondered if God is telling me to get off this road and embrace a different life. But then I remember that I don't believe in God and that if he does exist, then he gave me this life to begin with. What would he know?”
― Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family