Mariam

“For instance, is it really so natural and inevitable for an old woman to eke
out a living by scavenging cardboard boxes? Is that part of the essence of
human life? Is dying like that down to the individual, nothing to do with
anyone else? And if it’s not natural and inevitable, just sufficiently common
to be accepted as such, isn’t that futility even worse than if it was simply the
essence of life?”
― Hwang Jungeun, One Hundred Shadows

“Getting comfortable is how you die. I’ve never been comfortable, though, not fully. Even when life was
gentle with me, my brain sensed the danger. How generous of the world to finally validate my fears.”
― Racquel Marie, If We Survive This

“But this is how life work--the women who would be capable mothers too often don't want kids. And too many of those with children probably should have just sat that one out. Luckily, most were in between.”
― Tayari Jones, Kin

“Cruelty has a human heart.”
― Racquel Marie, If We Survive This