Anna

“was that life—and love—can be gone any second. When you had it, you needed to hang on with all your strength and savor every second.”
― Kristin Hannah, Winter Garden

“As a woman, I’d tried asserting my opinion without coming off as self-serving or overcontrolling. So I repressed pissed-off victim. Now I wondered if I had handled it too gracefully, my composure a signal that what he’d done was of little consequence. When I’d advocated for him to take classes and be in therapy, she mistook it as a nurturing passivity, gentle absolution. What I meant was take note of his mental health, because in my experience, when men were upset, lonely, or neglected, we were killed.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name: A Memoir

“I read somewhere that grief can be like breaking a bone. You have to set it right or it can ache forever.”
― Kristin Hannah, Night Road

“It’s so annoying the way women have to do all the hard things and take care of everybody and pay attention to everything all the time. And then be soft and open and fuckable. It’s infuriating!”
― Catherine Newman, Sandwich