Vivian

“She wanted this baby and that was the difference: magic you wanted was a miracle, magic you didn't want was a haunting.”
― Brit Bennett, The Mothers

“I'm fighting alone, every day. I fight with the hell that I survived. I fight with the fact of my own humanity. I fight with the idea that death is the only way of escaping this fact.”
― Han Kang, Human Acts

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Her father propped his sadness on a pew, but she put her sad in places no one could see.”
― Brit Bennett, The Mothers