Erika

“It hadn’t felt sacrificial at the time. Devoting herself to motherhood and the domesticity that came with it had made her happy, at first. And Chloe does make Blair happy. Immeasurably. It is everything else that has happened along with Chloe, the changes in herself and her worth and her marriage that happened so slowly they were imperceptible. Where she’d once felt motherhood had given her so much more than she’d had before, now she could only see it as having taken everything away. Now she cannot reconcile the love she has for her daughter with how confined she feels by the privilege of being her mother.”
― Ashley Audrain, The Whispers

“Honesty is a love-preserving mechanism that keeps alive all that is impressive and delightful about our partner in our eyes. By regularly voicing our small sorrows and minor irritations, we are scraping the barnacles off the keel of our relationship and thereby ensuring that we will sail on with continued joy and admiration into an authentic and unresentful future. 2 Love and Psychotherapy Lovers and psychotherapists might, at first glance, seem to”
― Alain de Botton, A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from The School of Life

“Sometimes he had the feeling that he existed only on the fringes of other people’s lives, not at the heart of his own.”
― Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

“You know, your genes aren't your destiny. You in particular. You have what you have, whatever you were born with, but you get to decide what to do with that. There's nobody telling you what those genes mean, what they're supposed to make you.”
― Ann Leckie, Translation State