Anna

“For it was a truth that mothers, having already lost their liberty when they bore children, having been tethered to the earth with this new soft tender body they must now protect forever, were the ones who understood the delicate balance between the price of freedom and the price of their children's lives.”
― Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

“Overexposure to the pointed, posed, propagandized, insincere novels with a lesson to teach and an agenda to impose, has diminished our ability to be affected by true art.”
― Alice McDermott, What About the Baby?: Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction

“Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

-From Street Haunting: A London Adventure”
― Virginia Woolf

“Every decent friendship comes with a drop of hatred. But that hatred is like honey in the tea. It makes it addictive.”
― Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads