Amanda

“You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

“Above all, be the heroine of your own life, not the victim.”
― Nora Ephron

“Marriage is a wrestling match where you hold on tight while your mate changes into a hundred different things. The trick is that you're changing into a hundred other things, but you can't let go. You can only try to match up and never turn into a wolf while he's a rabbit, or a mouse while he's still busy being an owl, a brawny black bull while he's a little blue crab scuttling for shelter. It's harder than it sounds.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

“All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago