Elizabeth

“The process of pushing out the egg is incredibly fast. Blink and you'll miss it. If you're a human parent, this relatively easy process might make you jealous. (Get ready to become even more jealous: A female pigeon is ready to lay her eggs just eight to twelve days after mating.)”
― Rosemary Mosco, A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Getting to Know the World's Most Misunderstood Bird

“When a pigeon pair picks a nesting spot, the female sits there and urges the male to bring her sticks, straw, feathers, and other material that she arranges around herself in a loose disk. The resulting construction is best described by words such as 'flimsy,' 'haphazard,' and 'bad.' Some pairs don't even build a nest; they just lay eggs on their chosen ledge and sit on them.”
― Rosemary Mosco, A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Getting to Know the World's Most Misunderstood Bird

“Could I even write another book if I couldn't drink away the goblins in my brain that whispered mean things to me while I sat in front of my laptop struggling to put words on the page? You have no talent. You're not funny. Why would anyone pay you to write? You're going to have to give the advance back because you can't do it. Ha ha ha. Maybe you should've gone to college. Also you need to lose ten pounds. The goblins always managed to get in a little weight jab while they were at it.”
― Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol

“. . . some women don't have trouble staying sober when they're pregnant because those hormones are like God's sedatives and somehow make abstaining from alcohol seem like a totally reasonable idea.”
― Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol