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What I came away with was a sense of Helen seizing control of her own story. She was so isolated in that city, so powerless - even at my age, I could see that - and those tapestries were a way of saying: I'm here. Me. A person, not just an object to be looked at and fought over.
Pat Baker, The Silence of the Girls
In life you have to learn to count the good days. You have to tuck them in your pocket and carry them around with you. So I'm putting today in my pocket and I'm off to bed.
Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club
That was the thrill of youth, the idea that you could be anyone. That was what had captured her in the charm shop, all those years ago. Then adulthood came, your choices solidifying, and you realize that everything you are had been set in motion years before. The rest was aftermath.
Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half
When you're struggling hard to manage your emotions, it becomes unbearable to have to witness other people's, to have to try and manage theirs too.
Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
But it is true I look for bright sides, not because I am an optimist by disposition, not because I don't know any better - I do - but because I am so slow. It takes me so long to do everything I do. And if you go slowly enough, every moment of the day becomes its own journey, either its own triumph, which you get to celebrate, or its own failure, which you get to move on from, by definition, in the very next moment. If you operate at speed, each word is not a victory, each swallowed piece of food or sip of water is not a conquest. If you operate at speed, you need bigger things to vanquish than a sentence or a muffin or a single line of King Lear. When you have learned forbearance and acceptable and generosity of spirit the hardest of ways. My skies may not be the limit, but they are less clouded than they seem.
Laurie Frankel, One Two Three
I felt as I used to do, as a very young girl, that the wind was the breadth of a god filling me with life.
Pat Baker, The Women of Troy
For millennia there have been men who react with horror and disgust to women's independence, men who desire women yet hate them, and who take refuge in fantasies of purity and control. What would it be like to live with such a man as your husband? There are too many today who could answer that. But that is the mark of a good source myth; it is water so wide that it can reach across centuries. I hope you enjoyed the swim.
Madeline Miller, Galatea
"One day, the beauty of your mind and the beauty of art will be as one..."
Heather Terrell and Victoria Christopher Murray, The Personal Librarian
