Ioana

“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

“I bore no responsibility in any of this. With my reduced muscular strenght, I couldn't afford to bear any.”
― Saou Ichikawa, Hunchback

“Beția aceasta de început e întotdeauna necesară, pentru că în puține cazuri din multe chiar devine o bază pe care se construiesc vieți împreună. Atfel nu se pot închide ochii, nu se pot depăși bariere.”
― Lavinia Braniște, Mă găsești când vrei

“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