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“I stare at what kept you warm before- patches of whisper-soft, downy fur on the curve of your shoulder, the ridge of your ear. I can’t believe how much I didn’t know. Later that night my friend across the country texts me: ‘Isn’t it crazy that that’s the only way to get to earth?’”

(Labouring, Meggie Green)

“For a writer such a love can represent the attainment of narrative authority over life itself. He imagines his baby grown up, wandering the world, seeing marvels. Confinement becomes freedom, ugliness beauty: parenthood is redemptive, transformative, creative. It is the means by which the self’s limits are broken open and entrance found to a greater landscape.”

“The question of what a woman is if she is not a mother has been superceded for me by that of what a woman is if she is a mother; and of what a mother, in fact, is.”

I’m calling myself out on this one - I was never going to read this book because I thought the cover was so ugly but ended up getting it on a huge discount. Turns out I’m really liking it so far oops 🤭

Je lui donne une deuxième chance 😬

Yes I know I just read this but now I have my own paper version so I’m reading it again.

Re-reading on audio!

Rereading this on hybrid mode cause I got my library to buy the audiobook 🥺

I can’t stop 🤭

Libby did not tell me this is the third in a series I haven’t read, whoops I guess cause I’m already invested