Abby

“It occurred to me then that to be a child is to know the cradle rocks both toward the parent and away from them. That is the ebb and flow of life, swinging toward and away from one another, perhaps so we build up the strength for that one moment we will be rocked so far away, the person we love the most is gone by the time we return.”
― Tiffany McDaniel, Betty

“...Poleman kept telling them it was nearly Anzac Day and they needed to remember the sacrifices of the soldiers, and her thinking that the Civil War taught her that people in power don't give a fig about people like her and their sacrifice, they only cared about people who could help them cling to power, that there was no point trusting anyone with a story to tell or someone else's sacrifice to sell, that stories of sacrifice are only used to help those in power, otherwise it's not a sacrifice, it's just a non-grieved over death”
― Brannavan Gnanalingam, Sodden Downstream

“What the fuck do you know about young women, Maggie thinks. We don't remember what we want to remember. We remember what we can't forget.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

“You put us on a pedestal in order to look up our skirts.”
― Julian Barnes, England, England