Sonja Oldenburg

“Please hear me, Girl: The world has enough women who know how to do their hair. It needs women who know how to do hard and holy things.”
― Ann Voskamp

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Susan was haunted by the gap between the sensation of three boys climbing her torso like a tree, combing sticky fingers through her hair, muttering into her ears-and the constraint of adulthood: How are you, honey? You look a little tired. Is there anything I can do? How about a hug for your old mom? If she'd had an inkling, back then, of the ache this constraint would cause her, she would never-not once! have said, "Let go of me, boys, I just need a minute," and shaken them off. She would have held still and let them pick her clean, understanding that there would be nothing better to save herself for.”
― Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

“Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.”
― B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life