Simona

“She looked down at her belly and then back up at her face. She wondered if she would once again become what she had been before. She was acutely aware of her own metamorphosis. She couldn't have said if this pleased her of if she was feeling nostalgic for the past. But she knew that something inside her was dying.
She had always thought that a child would cure her. She had convinced herself that motherhood was the only way out of her malaise, the sole solution that could end this perpetual flight from herself...”
― Leïla Slimani, Adèle