
Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller

a friend told me to come up with ten titles. “Do it fast,” she said. “Don’t think about it too much.” She said to type each title on a separate sheet of paper, and underneath type, a novel by Ann Patchett. I was then to tape them all to the wall. Every evening, in those last weeks at the Work Center, I invited the other fellows over to pull a singl
... See moreAnn Patchett • This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
You invent this story of how your destinies were made to entwine like porch vines, you adjust to a big view in this direction and no view in that, the doorway that you have to duck through and the window that is jammed, how who you think you are becomes a factor of who you think he is and who he thinks you are, a castle in the clouds made out of th
... See moreRebecca Solnit • A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Rachel feels a respect for her daughter that she’s never felt for her husband.
Chuck Palahniuk • Make Something Up
she’d been in such a hurry to succeed, which she’d believed required an ambitious husband and a house that she owned outright.