Samia

“They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. Its horrors are not attributable to one single person. Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“I am openly prideful, secretly judgemental, and cowardly in conflict.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“I believe that many modern women, my mother included, carry within them a whole secret New England cemetery, wherein they have quietly buried- in neat little rows- the personal dreams they have given up for their families”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“Having kids means taking care of them, raising them, loving and supporting them, and none of those things have anything to do with who makes them one night in the bedroom or the experience of being pregnant”
― Nicholas Sparks, True Believer