Suzanne Mcintosh

“YOU KNOW THAT SOMETHING is coming. Something—a specific, dire, and awful something—will happen. You envision it, you push it away. It rolls slowly, inexorably, back into your mind. You make what preparation you can. Or you think you do, though your bones know the truth—there isn’t any way to sidestep, accommodate, lessen the impact. It will come, and you will be helpless before it.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone

“Loss is an assault; a certain exhaustion, as strong as the pull of the moon on the tides, needs to be allowed for eventually.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me

“You don’t have to feel love for her. Only try to act with love.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings

“why once a woman chooses victimhood, she will continue to choose it again and again.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa