Trisha

“What if Ruby hadn’t felt like motherhood wasn’t the only path to fulfillment? What if she’d been encouraged to explore all facets of herself beyond what her family told her was right for someone born a woman? Maybe if she’d had the chance to pour herself into a high powered career like banking or physics, fields where empathy isn’t exactly a priority she wouldn’t have seen her kids as employees and extensions of herself or maybe she wouldn’t have had kids at all.”
― Shari Franke, The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom

“But so often, being right means nothing but winning a round of a losing game.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“Can you swim?” “What?” “If I push you in the river, will it be murder?”
― Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

“Sometimes grief is love unexpressed. Other times it’s regret made flesh.”
― S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed