Kimberly

“We know that it will profit a man little if he gain the whole world and lose his soul. I think I have won mine.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Collected Stories of W. Somerset Maugham: Introduction by Nicholas Shakespeare

“You can teach a viper to eat from your hands, but you cannot take away how much it likes to bite.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“To a parent, your child wasn’t just a person: your child was a place, a kind of Narnia, a vast eternal place where the present you were living and the past you remembered and the future you longed for all existed at once.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere