Madi

“I’m saying that it is hard to find a man who is really strong. Strong enough not to desire to be stronger than you.”
― Costanza Casati, Clytemnestra

“It was so simple. If you want it, I will do it. If it would make you happy, I will go with you. Is there a moment that a heart cracks?”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“They accept that your decisions, your recommendations, are sound and dependable, almost always correct. But they don’t like not knowing how you arrive at them. That’s where it comes from, this backlash, this prejudice.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun

“And yet, everything was different. And it was different because she no longer felt she was there simply to serve the dreams of other people. She no longer felt like she had to find sole fulfilment as some imaginary perfect daughter or sister or partner or wife or mother or employee or anything other than a human being, orbiting her own purpose, and answerable to herself.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library