Ioana

“În ciuda obiceiurilor puritane care domneau în Berd, nu-și refuza mici amantlâcuri. Iubea femeile, - până la istovire și uitare de sine -, se lăsa fermecat cu entuziasm, era gelos și le idolatriza, iar la sfârșitul relației le dăruia câte-o podoabă ieftină, dar frumoasă.”
― Narine Abgaryan, Simon

“What if Ruby hadn’t felt like motherhood wasn’t the only path to fulfillment? What if she’d been encouraged to explore all facets of herself beyond what her family told her was right for someone born a woman? Maybe if she’d had the chance to pour herself into a high powered career like banking or physics, fields where empathy isn’t exactly a priority she wouldn’t have seen her kids as employees and extensions of herself or maybe she wouldn’t have had kids at all.”
― Shari Franke, The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom

“Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't any good, but now I'm starting to think it all fell apart because I had ceased to be brave. 'If this were a movie, I'd be drowning in regret now. But I'm telling you, Hazel, it doesn't feel anything like regret. It feels like I just missed getting hit by a train.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“Maybe it takes commitment to know you shouldn’t have committed in the first place.”
― Jennette McCurdy, Half His Age