5-year period. Coyote and her father, Rodeo, have been traveling the country in an old school bus for that amount of time. It also represents how long ago Coyote’s mother and two sisters died in a vehicle accident.
Coyote hasn’t been home in that time, but when she learns that the park in her old neighborhood is being torn down—the same park where she, her mom, and her sisters buried a priceless memory box—she comes up with a complex scheme to convince her father to drive 3,600 miles back to Washington State in four days without him knowing.
They will meet up with an odd group of outcast travelers along the route. Lester needs to meet his future love. Salvador and his mother want a fresh start. To be herself, Val requires a secure environment. Finally, there is Gladys. Thousands of miles later, Coyote will discover that returning home can occasionally be the most difficult voyage of all. However, with her friends by her side, she just might be able to transform her “once upon a time” into a “happily ever after.”
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Sometimes trusting someone is about the scariest thing you can do. But you know what? It’s a lot less scary than being all alone.”
“I just wanted everyone to be happy…It’s hard, though, when everyone carries around a heart inside them that is so loud and so strong and so easily broken.”
“Maybe we’re all a little broken. Maybe we’re all a little fragile. Maybe that’s why we need each other so much.”
“Losing something can sure make you realize how much you loved it, even if you knew you loved it all along”
“Some things you just can’t quite put into words, and not speaking them is the only and best way to say them.”
The brilliantly amusing debut book Crazy Rich Asians is about three affluent, distinguished Chinese families and the plotting, backstabbing, and gossip that ensues when the heir to one of Asia’s largest fortunes invites his ABC (American-born Chinese) fiancée to the wedding of the season.
Crazy Rich Asians is an inside look at the Asian JetSet, a perfect representation of the conflict between old money and new money, between Overseas Chinese and Mainland Chinese, and a fantastic novel about what it means to be young, in love, and gloriously, crazily rich. It is hilarious, addictive, and filled with jaw-dropping opulence.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Doing nothing can sometimes be the most effective form of action.”
― Kevin Kwan, Crazy Rich Asians
“Remember, every treasure comes with a price.”
― Kevin Kwan, Crazy Rich Asians
“Eleanor had a long-held theory about men. She truly believed that for most men, all that talk of “being in love” or “finding the right one” was absolute nonsense. Marriage was purely a matter of timing, and whenever a man was finally done sowing his wild oats and ready to settle down, whichever girl happened to be there at the time would be the right one.”
― Kevin Kwan, Crazy Rich Asians
“Just because some people actually work for their money doesn’t mean they are beneath you.”
― Kevin Kwan, Crazy Rich Asians
“I hate to point out the obvious, but here’s this tiny bird that’s been trying to get through a huge bulletproof glass wall. A totally impossible situation. You tell me it’s been here every day pecking away persistently for ten minutes. Well, today the glass wall came down.”
― Kevin Kwan, Crazy Rich Asians
The stuttering Maximilian, a duke’s daughter, was forced by her father into marriage to a humble knight. Her husband abruptly left for an expedition after their first night together. Three years later, he returns, this time as a renowned knight throughout the continent. When he came back, how would Maximilian greet him?
The terrifying, haunting tale of what one woman would do to defend herself and her daughter is told in VOX, which is set in an America where half of the population has indeed been silenced. Dr. Jean McClellan is in denial on the day the government orders that women can no longer talk more than 100 words per day; this can’t happen here. In America, no. To her, no.
This is only the start. Women will soon be unable to hold employment. No longer are girls taught to read or write. No longer do women have voices. Women now only have one hundred words to make themselves heard, compared to the previous average of sixteen thousand words every day. But it’s not the end yet. Jean will recover her voice for herself, her daughter, as well as every woman who has been silenced.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Evil triumphs when good men do nothing. That’s what they say, right?”
― Christina Dalcher, Vox
“One thing I learned from Jackie: you can’t protest what you don’t see coming.”
― Christina Dalcher, Vox
“They won’t kill us for the same reason they won’t sanction abortions. We’ve turned into necessary evils, objects to be fucked and not heard.”
― Christina Dalcher, Vox
“I learned that once a plan is in place, everything can happen overnight.”
― Christina Dalcher, Vox
“Think about waking up one morning and finding you don’t have a voice in anything.”
― Christina Dalcher, Vox
In “National Treasures,” men and women quantify the length of their lives in tattoos, moose foot parts that have been sharpened, autumnal leaves, scrawled phone numbers, and herons’ scarlet eyes. This is the America we never see since it isn’t depicted in television shows or the news.
Hugh “Shuggie” Bain is a little kid who spends his boyhood in Glasgow, Scotland’s run-down public housing in the 1980s. His story, shuggie bain, is an unforgettable one. The famed drug epidemic in the city is waiting in the wings, and Thatcher’s policies have rendered sons and husbands jobless.
Agnes, Shuggie’s mother, travels a perilous path; while she is Shuggie’s compass, she also weighs heavily on him and his siblings. She flips through Freeman’s catalog, ordering a little happiness on credit—anything to make her life less gloomy—while daydreaming about a home with a front door of her own. Massimo will imprison Laura in his opulent estate for a year in an attempt to earn her heart. He will let her go if she doesn’t become infatuated with him during this period. But he will find her and murder her entire family if she makes any attempt to flee.
Laura quickly grows fascinated with her strong and attractive captor. But when a tenuous, perilous friendship develops between them, outside forces pose a threat to separate them. In the meantime, Shuggie is attempting valiantly to transform into the typical boy he so desperately wants to be, but everyone has noticed that he is “no right,” a boy with a secret that everyone but him can see. Even while Agnes supports her son, even her beloved Shuggie, her addiction has the capacity to overshadow everyone close to her. Shuggie Bain is an epic picture of a working-class family that is infrequently seen in fiction. It is a devastating tale of addiction, sexuality, and love. Edouard Louis, Alan Hollinghurst, Frank McCourt, and Hanya Yanagihara come to mind, and it is a superb debut by a novelist with a compelling and significant story to tell.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Sadness made for a better houseguest; at least it was quiet, reliable, consistent.”
“Flames are not just the end, they are also the beginning. Everything that you have destroyed can be rebuilt. From your own ashes, you can grow again.”
“Shug had seen it before, those with least to give always gave the most.”
“She had loved him, and he had needed to break her completely to leave her for good. Agnes Bain was too rare a thing to let someone else love. It wouldn’t do to leave pieces of her for another man to collect and repair later.”
“It was clear now: nobody would get to be made brand new.”
In this moving and brilliant debut novel, a beloved widower sets out on a journey that will change his life.
Arthur Pepper, who is 69 years old, has a straightforward life. The same time he did while his wife Miriam was still living, he rises from bed at precisely 7:30 in the morning. He gets into the same pair of grey trousers and mustard sweater vest, waters Frederica the fern, and then goes outside to his garden.
But something alters on the day marking a year since Miriam’s passing. Arthur discovers an amazing gold charm bracelet that he had never seen before while going through Miriam’s belongings.
What follows is a surreal and amazing trip that takes Arthur from London to Paris and all the way to India in an epic quest to discover the truth about his wife’s dark secret before they met—a journey that leads him to hope, healing, and self-discovery in the most unexpected locations. The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper is a surprisingly fascinating debut and a cheerful celebration of life’s endless possibilities, with a memorable cast of characters with enormous hearts and enticing imperfections.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Sometimes you hold onto things, not because you want to keep them, but because they are difficult to let go.”
“He always felt embarrassed opening gifts in front of others, having to act out delight or surprise. He liked to peel off the paper slowly and consider the contents.”
“Sometimes when you’ve lived a chapter of your life, you don’t want to look back.”
“By sorting out her wardrobe it felt as if he was saying goodbye to her all over again. He was clearing her out of his life. With”
“The thing is these days there is too much choice. When I was younger, you were grateful with what you were given.”
Rachel ought to be ecstatic on the night of her nuptials to Nicholas Young, the heir of one of Asia’s largest fortunes. She possesses a flawless JAR Asscher-cut diamond, a wedding gown she adores more than anything she could find in a Parisian salon, and a fiancé who is prepared to give up his entire inheritance in order to wed her. But Rachel still laments the absence of her birthfather, a man she never met, at the ceremony. Until: a startling revelation plunges Rachel into a Shanghai grandeur world she could never have imagined.
Here we meet Rachel’s father, the man she has waited her entire life to meet, as well as Carlton, a Ferrari-crashing bad guy with Prince Harry-like antics, Colette, a celebrity girlfriend being pursued by feverish paparazzi, and Carlton. Astrid Leong, Singapore’s It Girl, is astonished to learn that having a freshly minted tech billionaire spouse has drawbacks. China Rich Girlfriend is a frolic through the most exclusive clubs, auctioneers, and estates in Asia. It introduces us to a fascinating ensemble of individuals and gives us an inside look at what it’s like to be fabulously, insanely, China-rich.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“People are messy. Life gets messy. Things are not always going to work out perfectly just because you want them to.”
“I know the average outfit in your wardrobe costs more than a semester of tuition at Princeton, but it makes you look like a community college during summertime: NO CLASS.”
“What do you mean, ‘boundaries?’ You came out of my vagina. What kind of boundaries do we have?”
“Beauty fades, but wit will keep you on the invitation lists to all the most exclusive parties.”
“The larger the diamonds, the older the wife, the more the mistress.”
Bernadette Fox is no longer there. The fiercely brilliant recluse Bernadette jumps into planning the trip when her daughter Bee demands a family trip to Antarctica as a reward for receiving all As. But Ms. Fox is on the verge of a breakdown after years of trying to live the Seattle life she never wanted. And after she causes a school fundraiser to go horribly wrong, she vanishes, leaving her family to pick up the pieces. Bee does just that, putting together a complex network of emails, bills, and school memoranda that sheds light on Bernadette’s long-hidden secret background. The brilliant and blatantly entertaining book Where’d You Go Bernadette is about a family coming to grips with who they are and the strength of a daughter’s affection for her mother.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“That’s right,’ she told the girls. ‘You are bored. And I’m going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it’s boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it’s on you to make life interesting, the better off you’ll be.”
“My heart started racing, not the bad kind of heart racing, like I’m going to die. But the good kind of heart racing, like, Hello, can I help you with something? If not, please step aside because I’m about to kick the shit out of life.”
“This is why you must love life: one day you’re offering up your social security number to the Russian Mafia; two weeks later you’re using the word calve as a verb.”
“Maybe that’s what religion is, hurling yourself off a cliff and trusting that something bigger will take care of you and carry you to the right place.”
“People like you must create. If you don’t create, Bernadette, you will become a menace to society.”
The affluent food critic Olivia Shaw is shocked to find out she has inherited a centuries-old English estate—and a title to go with it—after her mother passes away. Olivia leaves San Francisco and travels across the pond to solve the puzzle of a lifetime. She has overcome with anguish and reels from the realization that her reticent mother concealed something so important.
Olivia only needs to take one look at the gorgeous Rosemere Priory to see why her mother painted the mansion, which is stunning even in its state of decay. She is baffled as to why her mother never brought it up to her. Olivia finds that the crumbling wallpaper, litter-filled hallways, and ceiling-high Elizabethan windows covered in lush green vines conceal improbable truths as she begins researching her mother’s past. Olivia finds herself falling in love with the quaint English village and its citizens despite the fact that her personal issues and her life back home beckon. Olivia must first unravel the mysteries of her history before she can choose what Rosemere and her future contain.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“That isn’t who you are. You’re afraid. And you cannot have a life of great meaning if you make decisions out of fear.”
“Life had washed me here on this strange errand. Maybe the best thing to do was to just let it show me what it had in mind.”
“you cannot have a life of great meaning if you make decisions out of fear.”
“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water,”
“And as I’d learned many, many times, nothing difficult grew easier in the waiting.”
CeeCee, a 12-year-old, is in difficulty. She had been taking care of her schizophrenic mother, Camille, for years. Camille was the town’s laughingstock, wearing a crown and splattered with lipstick. Camille thinks it’s 1951 and she recently won the title of Vidalia Onion Queen of Georgia, even though it’s 1967 and they live in Ohio.
CeeCee realizes her mother has gone fully bonkers when she finds Camille in the front yard waving to passing cars while sporting a torn prom dress and tiara. When catastrophe hits, CeeCee is rescued by Tootie Caldwell, a hitherto unidentified great-aunt, who takes her to Savannah. CeeCee is thrust into a perfumed world of wealth and Southern peculiarities within hours of her arrival—a world that seems to be ruled solely by women.
CeeCee’s perception of the world, however, is tested in ways she could never have anticipated since she must preserve secrets, confront injustices, and uphold loyalties. Her newly discovered happiness clashes with the long-held worry that her mother’s legacy has left her doomed for ruin just as she starts to regain her footing and feel a sense of belonging. Saving CeeCee Honeycutt is a lively Southern tale that explores the complex flaws and strengths of female relationships while enlightening the journey of a young girl who ends up losing her mother but finds many others. It is laugh-out-loud funny, at times heart-wrenching, and written in a pitch-perfect voice.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Life will offer us amazing opportunities, but we’ve got to be wide-awake to recognize them.”
“I made a mental note that if I ever needed help from a man I would make him a pie.”
“My grandmother said, ‘Don’t grow up too fast, darling. Age is inevitable, but if you nurture a childlike heart, you’ll never ever grow old.”
“I’m fascinated with antiques,” Miz Goodpepper said, bathing in a pool of soft light from the window. “I find there’s a sweet sorrow in object that have slipped away from their original owners.”
“Nineteen words I counted them. That’s all he had to say to me. Nineteen meaningless little words. And that’s when my father died to me–right there in the driveway.”
Wavy knows not to put her trust in anyone, not even her own parents because she is the daughter of a meth dealer. Eight-year-old Wavy, who is struggling to raise her younger brother, is the only responsible “adult” in the area. The beautiful Midwestern night sky above the meadows behind her home gives her calm. Everything changes one night when she sees Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a good heart who is one of her father’s thugs, crash his motorcycle. What happens next is a strong and startling love story between two unusual people that raises difficult issues and serves as a reminder of all the good and bad things that life has to offer.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I liked learning things. How numbers worked together to explain the stars. How molecules made the world. All the ugly and wonderful things people had done in the last two thousand years.”
“Most days I was impossible. Like a unicorn.”
“When I reached her, she was a star, pulling me into her orbit”
“You can look up keening in the dictionary, but you don’t know what it means until you hear somebody having their heart ripped out.”
“I love you. I love you all the way.”
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, a cherished American classic about a little girl’s coming of age at the start of the 20th century, is a sad and moving story packed with kindness and cruelty, joy and heartbreak, and life and people and incident. For more than 60 years, the tale of the youthful, impressionable, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the Williamsburg slums has enthralled and inspired millions of readers. In a work of literary art that masterfully captures a particular time and place as well as extraordinarily rich moments of universal experience, the daily experiences of the memorable Nolans are rough with sincerity and tenderly looped with family connectedness. These experiences are by turns overpowering, sublime, heartbreaking, and uplifting.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“The world was hers for the reading.”
“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
“I know that’s what people say– you’ll get over it. I’d say it, too. But I know it’s not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won’t forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him.”
“She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered ‘different.’ She did not suffer too much.”
“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
In 2012, Maria Semple published the epistolary comic book Where’d You Go, Bernadette. The story centers on Bernadette Fox, a mother and agoraphobic architect who vanishes just before a family tour to Antarctica.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“That’s right,’ she told the girls. ‘You are bored. And I’m going to let you in on a little secret about life. Do you think it’s boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it’s on you to make life interesting, the better off you’ll be.”
“My heart started racing, not the bad kind of heart racing like I’m going to die. But the good kind of heart racing, like, Hello, can I help you with something? If not, please step aside because I’m about to kick the shit out of life.”
“This is why you must love life: one day you’re offering up your social security number to the Russian Mafia; two weeks later you’re using the word calve as a verb.”
“Maybe that’s what religion is, hurling yourself off a cliff and trusting that something bigger will take care of you and carry you to the right place.”
“Can you believe the weather?’…’Actually, I CAN believe the weather. What I can’t believe is that I’m actually having a conversation about the weather.”
Sally Lachlan has been tormented by a secret for ten years, but maybe it’s ready to let it go. Her longing for love is reawakened by a chance encounter with the charming scientist Anthony Blake, and her daughter Charlie begins to express interest in learning more about her father. Sally loves to avoid thinking about the past and the future, but she must first accept her long-ago marriage if she seeks to know happiness. She won’t be capable of being truthful with Charlie until after that. Likewise, she.
The bestselling author of Stillwater Creek’s captivating new book, A Perfect Marriage, tells a tale of love and tragedy, enduring friendship, and faulty memory. The book also tells a story of forgiveness, of new beginnings, and hopeful expectations.
Perfect Mexican daughters don’t go to colleges far away. Additionally, many remain in their parent’s homes even after graduating from high school. Mexican daughters who are perfect never desert their families. Julia, however, is not your ideal Mexican daughter. Olga played that role.
Then, in a devastating accident on Chicago’s busiest roadway, Julia is left to put her family back together after Olga has passed away. Nobody appears to be recognising Julia’s brokenness either. Instead, it looks like her mother uses her sorrow to criticize Julia for all of her shortcomings.
Julia soon learns, however, that Olga might not have been as flawless as everyone believed. Julia is determined to find out with the aid of her closest friend Lorena and her first kiss, first love, and first everything boyfriend Connor. Was Olga really everything she appeared to be? Or does her sister’s narrative have more to it? And in any case, how can Julia possibly make an effort to live up to an apparently unattainable standard?
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I don’t know why I’ve always been like this, why the smallest things make me ache inside. There’s a poem I read once, titled “The World Is Too Much with Us,” and I guess that is the best way to describe the feeling—the world is too much with me.”
“How do we tie our shoes, brush our hair, drink coffee, wash the dishes, and go to sleep, pretending everything is fine? How do we laugh and feel happiness despite the buried things growing inside? How can we do that day after day?”
“It’s easier to be pissed, though. If I stop being angry, I’m afraid I’ll fall apart until I’m just a warm mound of flesh on the floor.”
“I’d rather live in the streets than be a submissive Mexican wife who spends all day cooking and cleaning.”
“I was too excited and threw my book across the room. It was so good that it made me angry. People would think I’m nuts if I try to explain it to them, so I don’t.”
Four college buddies from a small college in Massachusetts travel to New York to try to make it, but they are broke, lost, and supported only by their friendship and drive. In addition to Jude, who acts as their focal point, there is gentle, gorgeous Willem, a budding actor; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prestigious firm; JB, a quick-witted, occasionally nasty painter from Brooklyn; and Malcolm.
Their bonds become stronger and darker over the years, tainted by pride, achievement, and addiction. Their greatest obstacle, however, is Jude himself, who by middle age is a frighteningly talented litigator but who is also becoming increasingly broken. His mind and body have been scarred by a horrific childhood, and he is haunted by a level of trauma that he fears he will not only be unable to overcome but will define his life forever.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
“Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?”
“What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.”
“He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other people he loved.”
“None of them really wanted to listen to someone else’s story anyway; they only wanted to tell their own.”
Depending on who is presenting the stories, the history of the four families—four mothers, four daughters—shift with the four winds. Four Chinese women who had recently arrived in San Francisco met each week to play mahjong and share tales of their lives back home in 1949. They refer to themselves as the Joy Luck Club and are united by their grief and newfound optimism for their daughters’ futures. Before their own inner problems expose how much they’ve unintentionally inherited from their moms’ pasts, their daughters, who’ve never heard these stories, believe their mothers’ wisdom is pointless to their modern American lives.
Amy Tan explores the sometimes difficult, frequently emotional, and always a profound bond between mothers and daughters with wit and compassion. The threads become more knotted and intertwined as each lady shares her secrets and tries to piece together the truth about her life. Daughters roll their eyes while also sensing the unbreakable stiffening of their matriarchal links when mothers gloat or lament over their daughters. Tan is a skilled storyteller who tempts readers to delve into these complicated and mysterious lives.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.”
“Isn’t hate merely the result of wounded love?”
“We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable.
“And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over.
“But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better.
“Bridget Jones’ Diary” is the hilariously self-aware daily account of Bridget’s perpetually futile quest for self-improvement. In it, she vows to learn how to program a VCR, lose 1.5 inches from the circumference of each thigh, go to the gym three times a week, and form a solid relationship with a grown person.
Bridget sheds a total of 72 pounds but acquires a total of 74 during the course of the year. She is still upbeat, though. Bridget will keep you in fits of laughter throughout, and like millions of readers everywhere, you’ll find yourself exclaiming, “Bridget Jones is me!”
Best Quotes from this Book:
“It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.”
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.”
“Can officially confirm that the way to a man’s heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him.”
“I will not fall for any of the following: alcoholics, workaholics, commitment phobics, people with girlfriends or wives, misogynists, megalomanics, chauvists, emotional fuckwits or freeloaders, perverts.”
“Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.”
Celestial and Roy, newlyweds, represent both the New South and the American Dream. She is an artist on the verge of a promising career, and he is a young executive. But just as they become accustomed to their shared life, they are torn apart by events neither could have foreseen. Roy is detained and given a 12-year prison term for a crime Celestial is certain he didn’t commit. Celestial, who prides herself on being extremely independent, feels abandoned and disoriented but seeks solace in Andre, a friend from her youth who served as best man at their wedding. She is unable to cling to the affection that has served as her foundation as Roy’s time in jail progresses. Five years later, Roy’s sentence is unexpectedly reversed, and he heads back to Atlanta prepared to carry on with their relationship.
This passionate love story offers a tremendously illuminating glimpse into the hearts and minds of three individuals who are simultaneously connected and divided by forces outside of their control. A masterwork of narrative, An American Marriage offers a personal glimpse into the lives of those who must face their pasts while looking forward—with both hope and pain—to the future.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Much of life is timing and circumstance, I see that now.”
“But how you feel love and understand love are two different things.”
“There should be a word for this, the way it feels to steal something that’s already yours.”
“Sometimes when you like where you end up, you don’t care how you got there.”
“One is the left shoe and the other is the right. They are the same but not interchangeable.”
That summer, it was all the buzz in Shaker Heights how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally turned around and set the home on fire. Everything in Shaker Heights, a serene, forward-thinking Cleveland suburb, is carefully planned, from the design of the meandering roads to the hues of the homes to the prosperous life their occupants will go on to lead. Elena Richardson, whose guiding philosophy is following the rules, most exemplifies this spirit.
Enter Mia Warren, a mysterious artist and single mother who rents a home from the Richardsons when she and her teenage daughter Pearl arrive in this ideal world. All four of the Richardson children are soon drawn to Mia and Pearl beyond their status as tenants. However, Mia brings with her a shadowy past and a disdain for the laws that pose a threat to this orderly neighborhood.
When long-lost family friends try to adopt a Chinese-American child, a custody dispute breaks out that sharply divides the community and puts Mia and Elena against one another. Elena, who is suspicious of Mia and her motivations, is driven to learn the truth about Mia’s past. But her passion will come at a shocking and terrible price.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Most of the time, everyone deserves more than one chance. We all do things we regret now and then. You just have to carry them with you.”
“It came, over and over, down to this: What made someone a mother? Was it biology alone, or was it love?”
“ANGER IS FEAR’S BODYGUARD,”
“I don’t have a plan, I’m afraid, but then, no one really does, no matter what they say.”
“To those out on their own paths, setting little fires”