“Two women in a room. One seated, one standing”

“She wanted to say, no. She wanted to say, I have a son, there is a child, this cannot happen. Because you know that no one will ever love them like you do. You know that no one will look after them like you do. You know that it's an impossibility, it's unthinkable that you could be taken away, that you will have to leave them behind.”

“Two and a half thousand left-handed people are killed every year using things made for right-handed people.”

“It is a terrible thing to want something you cannot have. It takes you over. I couldn't think straight because of it. There was no one else, I realized, whom I could possibly tell.”

“It was always the meaningless tasks that endure: the washing, the cooing, the clearing, the cleaning. Never anything majestic or significant, just the tiny rituals that hold together the seams of human life.”

“That's because they're of the past. All photos of the past look melancholy and wistful precisely because they capture something that's gone.”

“You young people are always so obsessed with truth. The truth is often overrated.”