Laura Cushing

“I’m saying Mary’s an ideal homemaker,” I said. “But I’m not asking you to become a domestic goddess—that’s not my point. My point is that I don’t want to expect that from you anymore. I’m trying to change myself here, not you. Tonight was just a setback.” “Whatever,” Kristen said, leaning in for a kiss. “It’s fine. Good night.”
― David Finch, The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband

“You may not be the person your mother wants you to be, but you are you. Our job here is to try and separate the wheat from the chaff and figure out who you are and not who your mother thinks you are.”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“How many of us count fictional characters, or those we've never met, among our closest friends? My hand's up.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student

“Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.”
― Walt Whitman