Elyssa (Elyssa's Editions)

“There is a Dutch word, uitwaaien, “to walk against the wind for pleasure.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things

“Sometimes she struggled with resentment watching her family eat a meal that she prepared. People took eating and shitting for granted, like the continuous beating of their hearts, the inevitable protection of their skin. They didn't think about their intestines doing everything wrong, fucking up the basic process of digestion.”
― Zoje Stage, Baby Teeth

“She knew—it was her job as a teacher of history to know—how many horrors are legitimated in public daylight, against the will of most of the people.”
― Leni Zumas, Red Clocks

“She could not, she had thought as she bent to kiss the baby's flushed cheek, have loved this child more if it had come from her own flesh.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere