Emanuela Pascari

“For I’ve come to think one is truly married only when one is more committed to one’s vows than the person they refer to.”
― Hernan Diaz, Trust

“She was often late, not because she didn't care, but because she had too many contradictory cares.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

“Was there some magical, next-level love I wouldn’t be able to feel until I became a mother? Or was that just something we told women so they’d keep breeding?”
― Danielle Valentine, Delicate Condition

“It’s what we do as humans when we want to connect, we turn to what’s available, we hope it will do the trick, we string tired word stitched to tired word between us, in rituals of rough encapsulation and domestication, and sometimes it has to be enough, this noble kind of reaching, a dogged, clumsy kind of loving, weaving our coarse nets between us, pulling each other ashore.”
― Adrie Kusserow, The Trauma Mantras: A Memoir in Prose Poems