Athena

“When Juliet worked with actors, she taught them the concept of de-roling, a way of stepping out of a character at the end of the day so you could return unencumbered to your other life. But the parenting role, once assumed, tended to stay put.”
― Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

“The question people who weren’t in the business always asked: which one is your favorite? Meaning the best. As if she could ever separate the story from the conversations with the author, the dinner she was eating when she read it for the first time, the negotiation of the deal, the first sight of the cover, the reviews, the book events, the faces in the audience. The thought, I made this happen, even if none of the words were ever hers.”
― Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

“Same skill, different origins. Same noun, different verbs. Anyone can love their mirror image; it’s the easiest thing in the world to love what you already know. But how do you love difference as if it’s a part of you?”
― Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

“And it was then, looking down at the town, that William truly understood that he would never hear a new story, a new secret, from Abigail. He’d known the physical reality of that, of course. But this was a different understanding, more complicated and subtle. More literary, Abigail said in his head. Which only proved the point – that Abigail’s words now could only ever be things she had said, not things a future Abigail, altered by events that had not yet happened, would say.”
― Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons