Emilie

“It was ironic, how he was in there to try to have kids, but everywhere he turned, he felt like, God, do I really want kids? So much can go wrong.”
― Angie Kim, Miracle Creek

“A parent can’t write the end of a child’s story. If she’s lucky, she will never even know it. It’s for the child to figure out. I hope you are finding your own words out there in my sky. I think of you every second.”
― Yume Kitasei, The Deep Sky

“But then there were a lot of things about having a baby that never made sense to Sammie. There were so many tasks she’d always wondered about, things other mothers seemed to pick up so easily while she struggled, miserable.”
― Kristen Arnett, With Teeth

“He had left his mother’s womb with a particular predisposed mind and started living, and immediately that predisposed mind had run up against various events, and been altered in exactly the way such a mind, buffeted by those exact events, would be altered, and all the while he, Bowman, trapped inside Bowman, had believed he was making choices, but what looked to him like choices had been so severely delimited in advance by the mind, body, and disposition thrust upon him that the whole game amounted to a sort of lavish jailing.”
― George Saunders, Vigil