The Hungry Heart: A Novel

“Inadequacy and impostor syndrome are painful. They’re also great motivators.””

— Unknown

“And remember-no woman ever said, on her deathbed, I wish I'd eaten less cake.””

— Unknown

“This thing that I created, this thing I made as a woman, for other women, is worth something. It's worth exactly the same as what a similar thing, built by a man, for men, is worth.””

— Unknown

“There is no magic weight, no magic size, no magic number on the scale where, as soon as you hit it, confetti rains down and a band starts to play and hidden doors slide open and Daniel Craig walks through them to lift you in his arms (because, thin as you are, he totally can) and carry you into the life of uninterrupted bliss that you just know could be yours, if you only wore a size two dress.””

— Unknown

“There are friends who tell you, “Someday you’ll laugh about this.” Susan’s my best friend because, with her, “someday” is always now.””

— Unknown

“I would write my way out of my heartbreak, write my way to a happy ending . . . and, if, by the end of it, I had a story that other people might like, that happy ending might be the publication of an actual book. Not marriage, not a reunion with Mr. Right, not the kids and the house and the white picket fence, but not nothing, either. A happy ending of a different kind.””

— Unknown

“Back then, I didn’t understand that what was happening in my house was not happening in everyone’s house at night, when the doors were shut and the blinds were drawn. It took me just as long to sort out my physical self”

— Unknown

“it was a metaphor for my life, maybe for every woman’s life. You fall, you get hurt, you get up again.””

— Unknown

“Women’s stories matter, the stories we write, the stories we read”

— Unknown