Yeidi

“You feel it first in your heart, the possibility that winter might have passed. You may not trust it at the beginning, but then you do. Because now the sun is out and there are little nubby buds on the trees and your neighbors have taken off their heavy coats. And maybe there’s a new airiness to your thoughts on the morning you decide to pull out every window in your apartment so you can spray the glass and wipe down the sills. It allows you to think, to wonder if you’ve missed out on other possibilities by becoming a wife to this man in this house with these children.

Maybe you spend the whole day considering new ways to live before finally you fit every window back into its frame and empty your bucket of Pine-Sol into the sink. And maybe now all your certainty returns, because yes, truly, it’s spring and once again you’ve made the choice to stay.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Mum is a person who teaches you that Mum is not a person at all, but a note slipped under a door that says, Everyone deserves this.”
― Leena Norms, Bargain Bin Rom-Com

“Every main character has an enemy with a face and a body that they can chase or kill or confront or appease; when unfortunately your enemies are probably intangible and structural and a tiny speck of them is in everyone you know.”
― Leena Norms

“His yellow eyes were half-lidded as he sang, and in that golden moment, hanging taut in the middle of an ice-covered landscape like a single bubble of summer nectar, I could see how my life could be stretched out in front of me.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver