Tawnya

“what I really want to shout, and want in big letters on that grave, too, is FUCK YOU ALL. Don’t all women feel the same? The only difference is how much we know we feel it, how in touch we are with our fury. We’re all furies, except the ones who are too damned foolish,”
― Claire Messud, The Woman Upstairs

“I wanted him to reassure me, and when I saw he wasn’t going to, I thought, This is when the shit hits the fan.”
― Claire Messud, The Woman Upstairs

“he was playing on the climbing structure by himself—or “by his own,” as the children sometimes charmingly put it.”
― Claire Messud, The Woman Upstairs

“The professor husband of a friend of mine has likened children to the insane. I often think of it. He says that children live on the edge of madness, that their behavior, apparently unmotivated, shares the same dream logic as crazy people’s. I see what he means, and because I’ve learned to be patient with children, to tease out the logic that’s always somewhere there, and irrefutable once explained,”
― Claire Messud, The Woman Upstairs