Kathleen

“You, of all people, should know that you can’t tell a single thing about a person’s true character if you both want the same thing. That’s like a dog and a cat getting along because they both want to kill the mouse.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I’m talking about the common attitudinal habit in women that we’re kind of . . . failing if we’re not a bit neurotic. That we’re somehow boorish, complacent, and unfeminine if we’re content.”
― Caitlin Moran, How To Be A Woman

“Retrospectively, he realized that he had made a grave miscalculation when he had ended the friendship with Sadie. His mistake had been in thinking the world would be filled with Sadie Greens, people like her. It was not.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Billy’s whistle isn’t part of the act, which he doesn’t think of as an act but as his dumb self, the one he shows to guys like Nick and Frank and Paulie. It’s like a seatbelt. You don’t use it because you expect to be in a crash, but you never know who you might meet coming over a hill on your side of the road.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers