Heather

“She’d once heard them described as the whispers—the moments that are trying to tell you something isn’t right here. The problem is that some women aren’t listening to what their lives are trying to tell them. They don’t hear the whispers until they’re looking back with hindsight. Feeling blindsided. Desperate to see the truth for what it is.”
― Ashley Audrain, The Whispers

“Far too much time was wasted in child-rearing, Crake used to say. Childrearing, and being a child. No other species used up sixteen years that way.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“But I do not like the hole in her heart. She only has one, not three, like me. Tova’s heart. I will do everything I can to help her fill it.”
― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

“She was her mother’s favorite saying come to life. The cure for everything is salt water: tears, sweat, or the sea.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Island