Nancy

“There is always the fantasy of maternal love, but it does not accommodate a mother's fear of her children.”
― Stephanie Bishop, The Other Side of the World

“Yet what best protected privacy wasn't concealment but apathy - the fact that other people simply weren't interested.”
― Lionel Shriver, The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047

“Jayne was left an only child after her younger sister committed suicide in adolescence (a tragedy, yes, but one whose psychic statute of limitations might have run out by now - not that you'd get his wife to relinquish the trauma , which seemed to confer the special-protection status of landmark architecture.”
― Lionel Shriver, The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047

“The tragedy of love....is that it is only possible to love perfectly a person who is lost to you; only a lost person, lodged in a place before the narrow, clumsy gates of language, could ever understand you perfectly.”
― Stefan Merrill Block, Oliver Loving: A Novel