Hannah

“And that's the insult of it, how always it comes back to a woman being a "good" mother in the world's eyes or a "bad" mother, how everything in a woman's life is funneled through her body between her legs.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, I Lock My Door Upon Myself

“God will reward you," he said. "You must be an angel since you care for flowers."
"I'm no angel," she replied. "I'm the devil, but it's all the same to me.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“If nobody sees you, are you still there?”
― Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

“Books can't live your life for you. The reader who forgets to walk on his own two feet is like an old encyclopaedia, his head stuffed with out-of-date information. Unless someone else opens it up, it's nothing but a useless antique.”
― Sōsuke Natsukawa, Il gatto che voleva salvare i libri