Kim

“You work harder. You exercise. Your clothing flatters. You keep the edge of your affection sharp, a knife, so that those near you know to handle it carefully. You think you established some protection and then you discover that you endangered yourself to everyone you ever met.”
― Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth

“But now she would live. She had to. It was what she did: live while others could not. There was no pleasure in it.”
― Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth

“underneath the well-oiled sequences of Kimberly’s life, a flash of regret not only for things she longed for in the present but for things she had longed for in the past.”
― Chimamandabook, Americanah

“It marked the beginning of the end and made everything else seem rapid, the months rushing past, time hurtling forward.”
― Chimamandabook, Americanah