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

“it seems desperately attractive to be unrooted and breathing nothing but your own solitude”
― Natalia Ginzburg, Happiness, as Such

“Now don't, please, be quite so single-minded, self-involved, or assume the world is wrong and you are right. Whoever thinks that he alone possesses intelligence, the gift of eloquence, he and no one else, and character too... such men, I tell you, spread them open-you will find them empty.”
― Sophocles