Raven

“For a long while after her own divorce, Estelle had strongly urged Dorothy to follow suit. She had been particularly persistent, Dorothy thought, because she wanted the companionship of a similar destiny, as newly-married women want all their friends to be married, too. Or women newly become mothers, Dorothy remembered, who urge motherhood on others.”
― Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban

“Sweep everything under the rug for long enough, and you have to move right out of the house.”
― Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban

“To indicate interest is already to expose oneself to humiliation. To admit the existence of a desired object is to admit that to be rejected by the desired object, to admit that the desired object's disappearance, one of the two always inevitable, even if only in death, will be painful.”
― Miranda Popkey, Topics of Conversation

“Does your life feel authentically your own?”
― Adrienne Brodeur, Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me