Hayley Pierpont

“The years are rolling out like tide now. There is old weather on their faces, on the hard lines of their jaws, on their chaotic mouths. But they retain – just about – a rakish air”
― Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier

“The father-daughter wound is not only an event happening in the lives of individual women. It is a condition of our culture as well.² Whenever there is a patriarchal authoritarian attitude which devalues the feminine by reducing it to a number of roles or qualities which come, not from woman’s own experience, but from an abstract view of her—there one finds the collective father overpowering the daughter, not allowing her to grow creatively from her own essence.”
― Linda Schierse Leonard, The Wounded Woman: Healing the Father-daughter Relationship

“In her rare moods of liberation she held for him the danger that she would disclose great riches within herself, showing him the depths of loss frozen over by their marriage.”
― John Updike, Couples

“Country folk talked, that was all. Whether in the borderlands or the baronies, gossip was ever the chief sport.”
― Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla