“Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.”

“I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.”

“It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again.”

“I love to read, and I don't believe that you have to finish one book before you start another.--Mallory Pike”

“Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race”

“But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn't see, those tiniest of pieces, that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from being complete.”