Debra

“I hoped with every mothering cell in my body. I hoped with every scrap of power and will, every particle of knowing you, the years and years of you, the joy and hurt, the work and pride, the worry and love. I hoped until it hurt. I hoped so hard I felt it finally turn to prayer.”
― Jan Ellison, A Small Indiscretion

“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

“I have a theory that all human babies are born prematurely. Given the human life span – three score years and ten – to be comparable with other animals of similar longevity, human gestation should be about two years. But the human head is so big by the age of two that no woman could deliver it. So our babies are born prematurely, in a state of utter helplessness. I”
― Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times

“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