Dalila Heto

“And I don’t give a rat’s ass whether or not that’s worthy enough a purpose for the likes of you. I am more than just what I do; I am a person, and I am alive, and that is purpose enough.”
― Julie Leong, The Teller of Small Fortunes

“What if Ruby hadn’t felt like motherhood wasn’t the only path to fulfillment? What if she’d been encouraged to explore all facets of herself beyond what her family told her was right for someone born a woman? Maybe if she’d had the chance to pour herself into a high powered career like banking or physics, fields where empathy isn’t exactly a priority she wouldn’t have seen her kids as employees and extensions of herself or maybe she wouldn’t have had kids at all.”
― Shari Franke, The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom

“What looked like a snap to other people was actually an erosion of the surfaces that we built up for protection, and unfortunately people would rather dwell on the snap than the wearing.”
― Addie E. Citchens, Dominion

“There’s no such thing as greater good—there’s just good, and the more of it we can do, the better.”
― Julie Leong, The Teller of Small Fortunes