This great line, from Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan, stopped me on the page. It’s a laugh out loud way to describe a good marriage and I've had…
It is inexplicably unfair of me to claim to relate to the words of Abi Daré’s character Adunni, in The Girl with the Louding Voice—she is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl…
In Red at the Bone, by Jacqueline Woodson, a theme of mother-daughter relationships flows throughout the book. This great line, “I pressed my hand against my own face, felt the…
In The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson, the principal character is a blue-skinned pack horse librarian in Kentucky who delivers books to residents isolated in the…
This great line made me think about how much our lives have changed this year. “Holding hands” in today’s virus filled world is what we’re not supposed to do, at…
In her book American Dirt, Jeanine Cummins could have written, “looking in her mother’s purse feels personal” and left it at that. I would have known what she meant. Instead,…
This great line from The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman, is one I couldn’t have said better myself. This book has been called a love letter to…
This great line from City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert reminded me how much I rely on the female friendships in my life—especially now, as Covid-19 has forced us to…
This great line from Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes, like any great line, had multiple interpretations for me. The most obvious one being that the coronavirus has taken…
In The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo, the mother of four daughters says this great line in her mind as she thinks about her eldest daughter. This…