Brandi Pallo

“the long-awaited honor upon the most unlikely of us, small and ungrateful and probably cursed.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“We are two adults, and we are completely in control of our own actions. This will be fine.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“Those seconds, half seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moment in my day that I felt anything at all. The sudden swoop of my stomach, the coursing anger. I was like a fish eyeing the hook.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I know you’re supposed to have a six-month buffer in the bank, just in case, but that works better in theory than in practice. I’d love to have a six-month buffer in the bank. Hell, I’d love to have a two-month buffer. Instead, I’ve got less than two hundred dollars.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid's Secret