Julia Le

“Giving in to cravings of the mind that ultimately hurt the body is like a weak parent giving in to her child.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“I wish I didn’t feel that way. But I suspect, deep down, you think it, too. Because you didn’t come here and tell me how much you miss me. Or how hard it has been to live without me. You said you didn’t want to give up. And look, I don’t want to give up, either. I don’t want to fail at this. But that’s not actually a great reason to stay together. We should have reasons why we don’t want to give up. It shouldn’t just be that we don’t want to give up. And I don’t… I don’t have any.” I’m unsure how to say what I want to say gently. So I just say it. “You have never felt like my other half.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Pregnancy had brought a list of worries—episiotomies, prolapse, preeclampsia. I was so preoccupied with the idea of losing my body, it had never occurred to me that I might lose my mind.”
― Catherine Cho, Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness

“Black people love their children with a kind of obsession. You are all we have, and you come to us endangered. I think we would like to kill you ourselves before seeing you killed by the streets that America made.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me