Anatl

“The important thing to realize is the males in most species will breed with any female who stays still long enough. It's the females who are selective. What they desire has a huge effect. If all the female walruses got together one day to decide they wanted polka dots, within a few generations the males would have polka dots. The female's wish made physical on the male's body.”
― Audrey Schulman, Theory of Bastards

“Now that you have it all, do you ever wish you could go back to when you had it simple?”
― Lang Leav, Love Looks Pretty on You

“You turn him into poetry because you can’t have him any other way.”
― Lang Leav, Love Looks Pretty on You

“Then there’s Russell and Lillian Hoban’s Frances series, which is almost unbearably wistful, and no wonder: written just before the Hobans’ marriage ended, the books seem to document a happy family that was dissolving as they wrote.”
― Jennifer Traig, Act Natural: A Cultural History of Misadventures in Parenting