Nina

“But it seems she’d wanted children after all, because when she was told she’d been accidentally sterilized she could feel all the light leaking out of her.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood

“There is nothing I need from the shop, and this is not the day for social profligacy.”
― Per Petterson, Out Stealing Horses

“reproduced”
― Lindsay Straube, Kiss of the Basilisk

“All my life I have longed to be alone in a place like this. Even when everything was going well, as it often did. I can say that much. That it often did. I have been lucky. But even then, for instance in the middle of an embrace and someone whispering words in my ear I wanted to hear, I could suddenly get a longing to be in a place where there was only silence. Years might go by and I did not think about it, but that does not mean that I did not long to be there. And now I am here, and it is almost exactly as I had imagined it.”
― Per Petterson, Out Stealing Horses