Kathy

“No man is an island,
But a woman can be
if she wants.”
― Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly

“My father used to say the world turned wrong when we started separating ourselves from the wild, when we stopped being one with the rest of nature, and sat apart.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves

“Deming's a child, he doesn't get to decide."

Leon snorted. "A mother is supposed to sacrifice for her son, not the other way around."

"You better take that back." This man I had slept next to for years, this man I was supposed to marry-- he'd never known me. "Take that back right now."

A mother was supposed to lay down and die for her children, and Leon got to be called Yi Ba because he watched TV with you several afternoons a week. If he bought you a cheap toy, Vivian would crow, "How thoughtful!" and when he took you to the park the neighbors complimented him for being such a good daddy. But no one called me a good mama when I did those things.”
― Lisa Ko, The Leavers

“They do not seem like they could belong to the same species, but maybe it is the animal in me that feels the love, the human that can detach from it.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore