Krati Gupta

“Do I want children because I want to be admired as the admirable sort of woman who has children? Because I want to be seen as a normal sort of woman, or because I want to be the best kind of woman, a woman with not only work, but the desire and ability to nurture, a body that can make babies, and someone who another person wants to make babies with? Do I want a child to show myself to be the (normal) sort of woman who wants and ultimately has a child?”
― Sheila Heti, Motherhood

“Victor didn’t know what to say, so he said the most useless word in the world. “Sorry.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vicious

“When was the last time you told someone that you weren’t ready for what they were asking you to do?”
― Christie Tate, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

“When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is “You’re safe with me”—that’s intimacy.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo