Dalila Heto

“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

“The wood said, All woods join up with all other woods. All are one wood. And in that wood all times join up with all other times. All is one moment.”
― Susanna Clarke, The Wood at Midwinter

“It's important to stand still sometimes. Think of it as a little rest in the long journey of your life. This is your harbor. And your boat is just dropping anchor here for a little while. And after you're well rested, you can set sail again.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats.
Nor do they have tails.
But they are most assuredly dead.”
― P. Djèlí Clark, The Dead Cat Tail Assassins