119 Quotes by J. Courtney Sullivan

The hardest part about writing fiction is finding long stretches of time to do it: for me, this means writing mostly on Saturdays and Sundays. But I am always thinking about my characters, jotting down ideas in stolen moments and hoping I'll be able to make sense of them when the weekend rolls around.

A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.

It was her way of drawing a line between them and herself, playing the observer so she didn’t have to care whether or not she fit in.

Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity – the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.

She looked at the people digging up roads and busing dishes and caring for other people’s children – holding up the world – and wondered what they’d rather be doing. She was thirty-one years old, and she couldn’t quite accept that some people would be encouraged to pursue their passions, while others never would.

Women leave their marriages when they can’t take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.

As you made your way through life, there were people who stuck, the ones who stayed around forever and whom you came to need as much as you needed water or air.

It was so bitter and sad, looking for safety in the person least likely to give it to you. Like drinking salt water, she thought. The house felt eerily quiet.

For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don’t talk or care about feminism anymore, that it’s totally over. But it’s not.