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“The women that survived me! They stepped out of their houses into the daylight and if I'd had any breath I would have been breathless at the sight of them. The hands of women. The ankles of women. The voices of women as they called to each other across the square.”
― Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life

“Sometimes he's just a comfort blanket I take for granted. But he's also the only person I know who could break my heart. I find it all confusing really, always pushing him away and pulling him towards me.”
― Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

“When George stuck her head around the door and watched him work, his stomach clenched and his skin tingled. The feeling was like a phrase ending on a deceptive cadence, hovering, deliciously unresolved. There was something unsettling and adolescent about it, as though they were both teenagers and falling in love for the first time.”
― Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life

“And she is aware too how very convenient it is to have found someone she wants to marry just at the moment in her life when getting married is expected of her. It is a relief not to have to marry someone for the sake of it, or to have to make a stand and marry nobody at all.”
― Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life