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

“The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can populate an entire city, the whole world, with a person you have never met.”
― Annie Ernaux, The Possession

“Humans. For the most part, you are dull and blundering. But occasionally, you can be remarkably bright creatures.”
― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

“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