Beth Keeling

“Listen. It's okay. We asked for so much didn't we? We wanted to touch the stars, and look at what we did. There's nothing more we could ask from the universe, of this God you always talk about, than that. So it's okay. It is fine. Okay, Joan? For me, as long as you all know what you meant to me, it all worked out fine.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“I know you think of me as your mother only, but please remember, inside I am also just a girl.”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

“Most of these women had ordinary lives, but life pulled the extraordinary out of them.”
― Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

“She knew she had to teach them how to love themselves, that this was the only way they had a chance at happiness. Only she didn't see how she could when the world pressed shame into women like pillows into their faces. She wanted to save her daughters from her fate, but she couldn't seem to find a way out.”
― Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man