“I know that when I put my mind to something, I rarely fail. Prepare yourself, Monroe Sinclair, because I’m putting my mind to making up for the last eighteen years so we don’t spend the next eighteen without each other.”
“You wonder why I stay. Sometimes I wonder too. But I hate to think of a child, of anyone really, lying somewhere sick and scared, waiting for help that does not come.”
A Rome of One’s Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire by Emma Southon
“Women were always an integral part of Roman culture and the Roman Empire, which was never exclusively white or western or male, and never perfect…Women have always been a part of Roman history; they have just been waiting to be heard.”
“Everyone deserves someone who loves them through everything. Through anything. And maybe it’s an impossible wish, but I want to be loved by someone who would die before deliberately hurting me.”
“We should not be forced to chase closure. What we need to find are ways to coexist with our complex feelings, and to always remember that our reactions are completely normal. They’re not a sign of personal weakness.”