Lori

“she can go without food (she will not wither). She can go without heat (the cold will not kill her). But a life without art, without wonder, without beautiful things—she would go mad.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water,”
― Barbara O'Neal, The Art of Inheriting Secrets

“After a time, I realised that the changes were not mine, but hers alone. After a time, I began to see how deep the well of her loving was, and how much her happiness and confidence depended on drawing that love into the light, and sharing it. And love was beautiful in her. It was a clear sky she gave us with those eyes, and a summer morning with her smile.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“where other conditions are equal, the children of mothers who work because they want to are less likely to be disturbed, have problems in school, or to “lack a sense of personal worth” than housewives’ children. The early studies of children of working mothers were done in an era when few married women worked, at day nurseries which served working mothers who were without husbands due to death, divorce or desertion.”
― Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique