Normal People
It seemed that even here, while trying to ward me off those supernatural, dangerous revolutionaries, still she couldn’t stop herself from seeing the wedlock side of things.
Anna Burns • Milkman
Maybe they’d spent their lives together modulating each other, making up for what the other lacked.
Brit Bennett • The Vanishing Half: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
She could think of nothing more horrifying than not being able to hide what she wanted. She couldn’t have said no to him, she’d since realized, but she didn’t want to. And maybe that was the difference, or maybe, the difference was in thinking that there was one at all.
Brit Bennett • The Vanishing Half: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
I don’t know if you’ve ever been in a relationship with its own insane internal logic, where both people say and do things that make sense only within the contained narrative world they’ve created with each other. Sometimes I fear that my life consists of nothing as so much as a series of these worlds, bubbles where normal logic is suspended.