Olivia

“Just one more moment. Just give us one more. But maybe her heart would never be satisfied; maybe it was ever-enlarging in its want for me. Because she knew that if she were granted one more moment, then another one was what she would ask for. She could live around her son for a hundred years and even then, when it was time to part, she would think - but it has been too brief.”
― Fatima Farheen Mirza, A Place for Us

“The way the wind blows in our country can make us question who we are in our own lives. Often the type of waiting women do is to make sure other women approve, so that they may also approve of themselves.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

“We don't remember what we want to remember. We remember what we can't forget.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

“We pretend to want things we don't want so nobody can see us not getting what we need.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Three Women