Joanna

“The air felt different in my lungs. The world no longer looked the same. You change and then you change again. You become a dog, a bird, a plant that always leans to the left. Only now that my son was gone did I realize how much I'd been living for him. When I woke up in the morning it was because he existed, and when I ordered food in the night it was because he existed, and when I wrote my book it was because he existed to read it.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“A woman keeps to home and family, and tends to matters inside the home. A man keeps to war games and tends to matters outside."

A queen tends to both, I wanted to say, but did not. She would not understand.”
― Susan Fraser King, Lady Macbeth

“How quickly he fell; how soon it was over.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Didn't anyone ever teach you that it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission?”
― Emily Horner, A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend