Debra

“Just days before, hundreds of miles away, another couple had married, too—a white man, a black woman, who would share a most appropriate name: Loving. In four months they would be arrested in Virginia, the law reminding them that Almighty God had never intended white, black, yellow, and red to mix, that there should be no mongrel citizens, no obliteration of racial pride. It would be four years before they protested, and four years more before the court concurred, but many more years before the people around them would, too.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“These older generation mothers knew that they were absolutely indispensable at times like these, and it gave them a great sense of fulfilment, an ongoing purpose in life.”
― Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times

“Parenthood only ends with the grave.”
― Susan Howatch, Glittering Images

“Everything’s absolutely fine really—except that sometimes I think I can’t go on any more”
― Susan Howatch, Glittering Images