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“There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written.”
― Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
― Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
“Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.”
― Sisterhood Everlasting
― Sisterhood Everlasting
“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.”
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“Magnus held on to the boy, newborn in grave dirt and blood, and he wished that he had found him dead.”
― Saving Raphael Santiago
― Saving Raphael Santiago
“In soul of every newborn baby,
words are waiting to be written.”
― My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
words are waiting to be written.”
― My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“What happened?"
"This happened." He shifted his arms to reveal a bundle of tiny, knobby joints and fluffy patches of black and white.
A newborn goat.
"Oh, my goodness." She knelt behind him, peering over his shoulder. "Surely not Marigold?"
"I told you so," he said irritably.
As if she'd be intimidated by gruff words from a man cradling a newborn goat in his arms. She'd always known he had a capacity for gentleness.
I told you so, too.
She reached to stroke the little goat's fur.
Gabriel's shoulder muscle flinched in annoyance. "My shirt was ruined, I'll have you know. Completely unsalvageable. And then this runtish little thing wouldn't stop shivering."
"Would it help if I told you that I've never found you so wildly attractive as I do in this moment?"
"No.”
― The Wallflower Wager
"This happened." He shifted his arms to reveal a bundle of tiny, knobby joints and fluffy patches of black and white.
A newborn goat.
"Oh, my goodness." She knelt behind him, peering over his shoulder. "Surely not Marigold?"
"I told you so," he said irritably.
As if she'd be intimidated by gruff words from a man cradling a newborn goat in his arms. She'd always known he had a capacity for gentleness.
I told you so, too.
She reached to stroke the little goat's fur.
Gabriel's shoulder muscle flinched in annoyance. "My shirt was ruined, I'll have you know. Completely unsalvageable. And then this runtish little thing wouldn't stop shivering."
"Would it help if I told you that I've never found you so wildly attractive as I do in this moment?"
"No.”
― The Wallflower Wager
“For the newborn and wise, everything begins small.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“If you start afresh with a fully blank brain, like a newborn, you鈥檒l have a lot to catch up on. Sometimes, it won鈥檛 be cute. Sitting weirdly, spreading your legs鈥攗naware of your briefs showing, or asking your new parents why their lips are glued together, isn鈥檛 cute.”
― The High Auction
― The High Auction
“In each life, there come moments that feel as though they are a seashell from centuries ago caught and preserved in stone. All that is beautiful is there in full detail. And we are allowed to marvel as though time isn鈥檛 slipping away from us, as though it will always be here, in our hands.
That鈥檚 how Helen felt as she cradled the newborn in her arms and looked down at his tiny sleeping face.”
― The Ocean's Daughter :
That鈥檚 how Helen felt as she cradled the newborn in her arms and looked down at his tiny sleeping face.”
― The Ocean's Daughter :
“Hold your newborn as much as you want to. Show affection to your newborn. Reassure your newborn. Do not listen to those who tell you not to.聽”
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“鈥s she peered distrustfully over the rail of my crib, she saw my face鈥攁nd blood intervened. Desdemona鈥檚 worried expression hovered above my (similarly) perplexed one. Her mournful eyes gazed down at my (equally) large black orbs. Everything about us was the same. And so she picked me up and I did what grandchildren are supposed to do: I erased the years between us. I gave Desdemona back her original skin.”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex
“She lifted her hand and placed it on his chest, the exquisite little heartbeat radiating through her touch. Helen smiled, realizing she had found in this soft bundle something strong鈥攗nconquerable, even.
Something greater than any obstacle they might face as they made their way through the dark night. It was his soul, the unspoken words inside him that he wasn鈥檛 quite ready to tell her, but oh, they were there.”
― The Ocean's Daughter :
Something greater than any obstacle they might face as they made their way through the dark night. It was his soul, the unspoken words inside him that he wasn鈥檛 quite ready to tell her, but oh, they were there.”
― The Ocean's Daughter :
“She took the baby in her arms, holding it with such care and delicacy. The minute she laid eyes on the tiny, beautiful creature, she fell in love. Her heart swelled up. In that moment she knew what a mother鈥檚 unconditional love meant.”
― Fairy Tale of A Mexican Family
― Fairy Tale of A Mexican Family
“Somehow, a pervasive idea has spread in modern times that the mom who is out and about soonest with her baby is somehow the strongest, like an episode of Survivor. For some type-A parents, it's almost a badge of honor to say you made it to yoga after two weeks, snuck off to the office for a meeting, or flew with your infant across time zones. But that's all upside down鈥攊n a healthy postpartum period, it's she who stays still that wins the prize.”
― The First Forty Days: The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother
― The First Forty Days: The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother
“You are newbuilt,鈥� said Lady Dear, as if just now realizing it. 鈥淣ewborn. You鈥檙e a child.鈥�
Ayla bristled. 鈥淚 am not. I鈥檓 sixteen. Crying doesn鈥檛 make me a child.”
― Iron Heart
Ayla bristled. 鈥淚 am not. I鈥檓 sixteen. Crying doesn鈥檛 make me a child.”
― Iron Heart
“And sometimes, if she was brave enough, she would turn to the memories of little James. Not the end, but the days before. When she would slide her pinky into his open palm and his tiny fingers would close tight around it. He would peer around the room with his brand-new eyes, and Helen thought that perhaps after the womb, this dark, tight space probably seemed about right. He was wonderfully oblivious to the danger they were in. She became his protector, and for those days, that was all she was. It changed everything. It changed her. And somehow, he in turn protected Helen. He was the sun that couldn鈥檛 reach them鈥攈e broke away the darkness. As she thought of him, of those red curls and blue eyes, Helen found herself feeling the warmth from him, even though he was gone.”
― The Ocean's Daughter :
― The Ocean's Daughter :
“On either side of the laneway, rain-soaked bushes burst into a flurry of white flowers. Alice's first breaths were filled with lightning and the scent of storm lilies in bloom.
You were the true love I needed to wake me from a curse, Bun, her mother would say to finish the story. You're my fairytale.”
― The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
You were the true love I needed to wake me from a curse, Bun, her mother would say to finish the story. You're my fairytale.”
― The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
“Oh well, at least I'll get a 90 minute break until the next feed. That's when my lactation consultant delivered the real tit-punch. The every-90-minute stopwatch does not start from the end of one feeding. It starts from: the beginning. I've never been great at math but if you're supposed to feed a baby every 90 minutes from the moment they start eating, and the feeding takes 90 minutes, then you are feeding a baby every minute of every hour of every 24 hour day. If I could've fainted when I heard this news I would have, but since I was already dead, I couldn't. I was in a very real sense being eaten alive.”
― I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
― I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
“The newborn鈥檚 preference for a mutual, rather than unilateral, gaze shows that babies are designed for reciprocity.”
― Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine
― Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine
“All this was in contrast to the idea that a newborn, on the basis of cortical immaturity, is a being who remembers and understands nothing: a person only within the context of the mother鈥檚 acknowledgment, blank, a species of human cabbage.”
― Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine
― Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine
“She took the baby in her arms, holding it with such care and delicacy. The minute she laid eyes
on the tiny, beautiful creature, she fell in love. Her heart swelled up. In that moment she knew what a mother鈥檚 unconditional love meant.”
― Fairy Tale of A Mexican Family
on the tiny, beautiful creature, she fell in love. Her heart swelled up. In that moment she knew what a mother鈥檚 unconditional love meant.”
― Fairy Tale of A Mexican Family
“If you create a loving bond with your new baby, then you're already a great parent and the rest is just details.”
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“An unborn baby in the mother鈥檚 womb is the pinnacle of all the arts. And when that baby enters the world, a living masterpiece is born鈥攂efore whom even the finest creations appear mediocre.”
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