The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel
My mother raised me to be polite, to be demure. I have long operated under the idea that civility is subservience. But it hasn’t gotten me very far, that type of kindness. The world respects people who think they should be running it.
Taylor Jenkins Reid • The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel
Being wanted meant having to satisfy. At least, that was my view of it back then.
Taylor Jenkins Reid • The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel
People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth.