Natalie Harvey

“In my experience, this is the hardest lesson of them all. After a certain age, we are all walking around this world in bodies made of secrets and shame and sorrow and old, unhealed injuries. Our hearts grow sore and misshapen around all this pain - yet somehow, still, we carry on.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

“The world ain't straight. You grow up thinking things are a certain way. You think there are rules. You think there's a way that things have to be. You try to live straight. But the world doesn't care about your rules, or what you believe. The world ain't straight, Vivian. Never will be. Our rules, they don't mean a thing. The world just happens to you sometimes, is what I think. And people just gotta keep moving through it, best they can.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

“Part of Elaine felt she was not worthy of this story, and yet another part of her wondered if the telling might be something of a balm to Manon’s soul.”
― Madeline Martin, The Librarian Spy

“Sometimes the things we hold inside of us need to be let out. No matter where you are or who you’re speaking with.”
― Madeline Martin, The Librarian Spy