“She knew a woman could learn to resent this post, but she would instead find a hundred books to read”
― Of Women and Salt
― Of Women and Salt
“That there are no real rules that govern why some are born in turmoil and others never know a single day in which the next seems an ill-considered bet. It’s all lottery, Ana, all chance. It’s the flick of a coin, and we are born.”
― Of Women and Salt
― Of Women and Salt
“I believe family is whoever we point to. I did not just have you. You did not simply happen to me. I chose. I saw the possibilities and I chose and I would not judge the woman who chooses differently.”
― Of Women and Salt
― Of Women and Salt
“She mistook happiness for what it was - how we build lives out of the strings we hold. But we should have known deep down that she was lying to herself. She had said I knew the secret, what was really important in life, what made a person happy. If that was true, it didn't make sense when she went back home and left all that 'happiness' behind.”
― Of Women and Salt: A Novel
― Of Women and Salt: A Novel
“I thought, for the first time, My God. Nobody asked you either, Mary. Nobody asked if God could build a temple out of you, if you wanted to turn your life into an offering.”
― Of Women and Salt
― Of Women and Salt
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