Debra

“Though she thought of her body as a mass of frailties, she considered her soul quite as ill, and therefore important in her life.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

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

“I try not to live in the past, he thought, but who knows, sometimes the past lives in me.”
― Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

“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