Anna

“She could never explain this to her daughter. 'You made me recognize that my heart is in fact a bottomless hole of simultaneous pleasure and despair.' She could never say, 'You gave my life meaning and ruined it at the same time.”
― Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had

“The problem was the companies that sold shitty sanitary pads. Otherwise reasonable adults who believed tampons stole a girl's virginity. Doctors who didn't bother to solve common problems. Birth control that could kill you. Boys who were told that they couldn't control themselves. A society that couldn't handle the fact that roughly half of all humans will menstruate.”
― Kristen Miller, The Change

“Parents do tend to judge each other. I don’t know why. Maybe because none of us really know what we’re doing? And I guess that can sometimes lead to conflict.”
― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

“And yet what precisely is this ‘greatness’? Just where, or in what, does it lie? I am quite aware it would take a far wiser head than mine to answer such a question, but if I were forced to hazard a guess, I would say that it is the very lack of obvious drama or spectacle that sets the beauty of our land apart. What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, of its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day