Athena Macmillan

“Now I know I’ll never be numb again. A mother is condemned to feel everything forever. And I’m finally afraid, condemned to fear everything forever. But that makes sense: feel someone else’s pain, feel someone else’s everything.
And he’s my baby, so everything’s okay.”
― Kristin Hersh, Rat Girl

“I could have lived through it all if only I continued to have the feeling that at the end of childhood, at the end of adolescence, there was something else in this life that would be mine, that I could make with my bare hands, and once I had made it, I could say, I did this to my life. I made my life so.”
― Paullina Simons, The Bridge to Holy Cross

“No pervs allowed in the Oval Office,” Donald said. “I didn’t make the rules.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, Rodham

“Every good war picture is an antiwar picture”
― Tatjana Soli, The Lotus Eaters