Shades of Milk and Honey

“One must not put trust in novelists, Beth; they create worlds to fit their own needs and drive their characters mad in doing it.”

“Perfection is different to every viewer.”

“I would rather have you honestly angry with me than polite.”

“Nothing today had done her any real harm, yet she felt as though her nerves had been flayed and left out for the tanner.”

“As the family sat in the drawing room after their nuncheon,”