Tamara > Tamara's Quotes

“She only felt revulsion for any kind if religious fundamentalists. The very thought if such people's intolerant worldview, their inflated sense of their own superiority, and thei callous imposition of their own beliefs on others was enough to fill her with rage.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“They were careless people ... they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made . . . . ”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“If you ever need to quickly get the attention of a roomful of American musicians, “A-one!” will do it every time. Warning: do not use this command frivolously.”
― Carole King, A Natural Woman: A Memoir

“Performing wasn’t something to fear; it was a merely a larger circle of collaboration. The more I communicated my joy to the audience, the more joy they communicated back to me.”
― Carole King, A Natural Woman: A Memoir

“It’s okay to let go of the image of the perfect mother. It was never real anyway. Perfect is never necessary; good enough is always good enough.”
― Diane Wiessinger, Sweet Sleep: Nighttime and Naptime Strategies for the Breastfeeding Family

“If there could be a little blue light on the rooftop of every home in your town where a mother is awake when you are, the town would be lit with little blue lights, coming on and off, but always lots of them. It might even help to picture it when you’re feeling awake and alone in the middle of the night.”
― Diane Wiessinger, Sweet Sleep: Nighttime and Naptime Strategies for the Breastfeeding Family

“In a different culture or a different time in history, nobody would think twice about you breastfeeding and having your baby in your bed, because that’s what most mothers would have done.”
― Diane Wiessinger, Sweet Sleep: Nighttime and Naptime Strategies for the Breastfeeding Family

“You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is. That’s the lesson. Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest. Of course we do. Name me a person or a nation who does not. The trick is figuring out where your interests are.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“I see us as we were then, standing eye to eye, laboring hard under the illusion that we were cynical and cold, that our respective tragedies had inured us, put us permanently beyond the reach of further suffering, when the truth was that we were as terrified and lost as babies.”
― Madhuri Vijay, The Far Field

“Beneath the smooth, familiar face of things is another that waits to tear the world in two.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.”
– Soren Kierkegaard”
― Inglath Cooper, Crossing Tinker's Knob