Quotes from work

The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

“Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.”

“She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.”

“I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm scared to be this happy. I'm scared to be this extreme.”

“The word friends doesn't seem to stretch big enough to describe how we feel about each other. We forget where one of us starts and the other one stops.”

“Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson”

“Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.”

“I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.”

“Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.”

“Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman”

“There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't.”

“She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?”