Mandi

“Everyone—all my patients—think they’re supposed to play it cool about these changes”—now she was checking my moles—“but ‘freaking out’ actually plays an important role in transitions. Picture how the vaginal canal squeezes the water out of a baby’s lungs—it’s the shock of this squeezing and the sudden cold air that makes the baby cry out and take their first breath!”
― Miranda July, All Fours

“Mariam did not believe that Jalil would drop her. She believed that she would always land safely into her father’s clean, well-manicured hands.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“I can’t believe this happened.”
― Miranda July, All Fours

“What was it about a season’s first snowfall, Mariam wondered, that was so entrancing? Was it the chance to see something as yet unsoiled, untrodden? To catch the fleeting grace of a new season, a lovely beginning, before it was trampled and corrupted?”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns