“Tess realized one of the great modern dating sadnesses: everyone is so used to the comforting glow of the computer screen that no one can go so far as to say "good morning" in public without being liquored up.” UsedMorningSadnessModernComputerDatingScreensComfortingTessComputer Screen Author:Amelia Gray
“Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those around her, and learned how to display them proudly.” FirstsMadeAreasMovedConformityDisplayWeirdnessNon ConformityTess Book:Lucky Source: Lucky
“IT WAS TESS who told me about the crowd going to the all-night dance. We'd been school friends. We'd picked mushrooms and pretended to have seen a big ship. She had got married since I went away; it was a made match, a man from the midlands, a Donal, who had worked in a garage but took to farming, out all day, draining fields and callows so that he could till them and sow corn.” MenMadeBigsSchoolNightFieldsMarriedCrowdsShipsFarmingAll NightCornGarageMushroomsDrainingTessSchool Friends Book:The Light of Evening Source: The Light of Evening
“Intensely moving but never sentimental, Academy Street is a profound meditation on what Faulkner called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'. In Tess Lohan, Mary Costello has created one of the most fully realized characters in contemporary fiction. What a marvel of a book.” HumansHeartBookCharacterMovingFictionMeditationStreetsConflictProfoundContemporaryMarySentimentalHuman HeartAcademyContemporary FictionTess Author:Ron Rash