Audrey Approved

“Being a mother must be the saddest yet most hopeful thing in the world, falling into a love that, once started, would never end.”
― Yiyun Li, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

“It is an exhilarating and terrifying experience to walk the road of your ignorance. Learning, you learn, is not really a process of expanding your mind, but of watching it shrink against all there is to know.”
― Evan Puschak, Escape into Meaning: Essays on Superman, Public Benches, and Other Obsessions

“Grief is selfish: we cry for ourselves without the person we have lost far more than we cry for the person—but more than that, we cry because it helps. The grief process is also the coping process and if the grief is frozen by ambiguity, by the constant possibility of reversal, then so is the ability to cope.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“For me, fiction is when research meets compassion; I believe this is often why facts don't change people's minds, but stories do.”
― Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens