6 Quotes by Amanda Sellet

When's the last time you took a risk? I'm talking IRL, not in your reading material.

The shivery, hopeful, heart-pounding certainty that something good was about to happen? It was like starting a new book, with countless pages left to turn.

In fact, I suspected it might never be finished. I'd keep writing forever, never quite getting it right, until I was a withered crone and he was a well-preserved movie star, with a house on the Riveria and dozens of linen shirts in varying shades of blue.

There was something highly literary in the idea of succumbing to a fateful solitary misery, like working myself to death making hats.

You said she had a condition?” Terry looked questioningly at me. “Ennui. It’s like boredom, except you think it makes you interesting.

It was almost a direct reversal of the old rules of conduct, under which a woman had to remain virginal or risk being cast out of society. Nowadays young women were apparently supposed to count being a sexual dynamo among their accomplishments—a far riskier avocation than embroidery or playing the harp.From damned if you do to damned if you don’t: the story of women’s lives