Tamara

“If there could be a little blue light on the rooftop of every home in your town where a mother is awake when you are, the town would be lit with little blue lights, coming on and off, but always lots of them. It might even help to picture it when you’re feeling awake and alone in the middle of the night.”
― Diane Wiessinger, Sweet Sleep: Nighttime and Naptime Strategies for the Breastfeeding Family

“Beneath the smooth, familiar face of things is another that waits to tear the world in two.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“It’s okay to let go of the image of the perfect mother. It was never real anyway. Perfect is never necessary; good enough is always good enough.”
― Diane Wiessinger, Sweet Sleep: Nighttime and Naptime Strategies for the Breastfeeding Family

“She only felt revulsion for any kind if religious fundamentalists. The very thought if such people's intolerant worldview, their inflated sense of their own superiority, and thei callous imposition of their own beliefs on others was enough to fill her with rage.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84