Sabrina

“To live for your children seems a normal thing, a respectable one; to live because of your children is something else. Mine are the blood of me, and the oxygen in that blood, the airflow and the neurons firing and the stretch and release of muscles in limbs, they are the foundations that make up my skeleton, all the collagen and calcium upon which I stand and fall, and the pulse and the flow and the beat. But I think maybe this is too much for them to be. The breath of a man. The life of him. I think it is too heavy a thing for children to carry.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore

“To be a woman was to watch yourself not just through your own eyes, but through the eyes of others.”
― Laila Lalami, The Dream Hotel

“There is such peril in loving things at all, and he feels sort of proud, in fact, that he just keeps on doing it.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore

“When someone dies, where does the way they eat egg rolls go?”
― Marie-Helene Bertino, Beautyland