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“With a partner you had the story of how you met, choosing each other out of everyone in the world, and the years together were chaptered with joint decisions - no one could ever say it was all a dream; both parties were accountable. Not so with a child. For the child it WAS a dream. And the unpunctuated days into years moved much more quickly (for the parent), so all one could do was free-fall through the chaos, madly making sandwiches and washing hair and hope that there would be some ritual, some time for reflection, at the end.”
― Miranda July, All Fours

“It’s weird how meal and sleep breaks fix a lot of the annoying things about humans. Maybe that’s how you restart an organic brain?”
― Martha Wells, Platform Decay

“It takes a great deal to trust the future after one is acquainted with loss.”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 5

“But maybe the road split between:

a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising”
― Miranda July, All Fours