Sonja Oldenburg

“It’s about the eyes, really. If you’ve seen enough, you just look older, no matter what the rest of your face looks like.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Butterfly Garden

“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

“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

“Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power.”
― B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Yoga