Emma

“I want to stand up and say my own piece, as though she's the prosecuting barrister, and I'm the defence. That's not how you're meant to feel, listening to a speech from a loved one, is it?”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“There's nothing less sexy than a lack of ambition, is there?”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“What do we do now?" I asked, trying to silence the screams in my head.
"We go on" Adam said. "We keep going".
I nodded but I did not ask my next question. How?”
― Jessica Goodman, They Wish They Were Us

“They'd all known each other long enough to forgive each other's faults, to accept each other's politics and to say what would be unsayable in any other company.”
― Val McDermid, A Darker Domain