Kim

“What I want more than anything is to be free. To parent my children, do my work, and serenity prayer the rest.”
― Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

“What happens if you don't process what has happened to you? What you've done, what you didn't do. It sits inside you. It can make you feel like you are choking. Like you can't take a full breath.”
― Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

“Here's my ennobling truth, Sailor: women risk death to give life to their babies. They endure excruciating pain, their inner parts torn, then they pick themselves up no matter what state they are in, no matter how much blood they've lost, and they tend to their infants… Tell me, men: when were you last split open from the inside?”
― Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

“It was like sipping a fine vintage wine and knowing that there were complexities that you would never be able to taste, hidden depths that you could not understand.”
― T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead