Drew McGee

“This is how it always is. You have to make these huge decision on behalf of your kid, this tiny human whose fate and future is entirely in your hands. Who trusts you to know what's good and right and then to be able to make that happen. You never have enough information. You don't get to see the future. And if you screw up - if with your incomplete contradictory information you make the wrong call - nothing less than your child's entire future and happiness is at stake. It's impossible. It's heartbreaking. It's maddening. But there's no alternative."

"Sure there is," she said.

"What?"

"Birth control.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

“In a while he reached across the table and took her hand in his. He could not have known that he was trying to comfort a building that had been struck by lightning.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“For the first time in her life, Tilo felt that her body had enough room to accomodate all of its organs.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“Dear Doctor,

If you like you can change every inch of me. I'm just a story.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness