Sinulienka

“Because sometimes their need to please previous generations is greater than their need to love future ones.”
― Florence Knapp, The Names

“I know Dad loves me. I just don’t know if he can see me.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore

“think my husband loved me as a vessel. Not consciously, I don’t think so little of him that I believe he could be conscious of this. But somewhere deep within. A buried truth in the darkness. He never took the time to discover my body, he never explored it for what it could offer aside from the obvious, he never found in me, in my essence, a purpose other than to carry children, and when I admitted I couldn’t do this for him he turned away from me. He had no more use for my limbs or my skin, my muscles or tongue or fingertips. He couldn’t even see me anymore, my flesh. I’m not sure that such a turning away could exist in the same body as love. I’m not sure it’s possible to make so small a thing of love. I think love expands when it needs to, it adapts, it embraces.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore

“saudade – a yearning for a happiness that has passed, or perhaps never existed.”
― Joanna Glen, All My Mothers