Jensen > Jensen's Quotes

“But there are many things a woman never sees until she’s joined unto a man.”
― Joy McCullough, Blood Water Paint

“No matter how many layers of paint pile one, I will always be the sketch beneath. Useful, even crucial, but never what’s admired by the world.”
― Joy McCullough, Blood Water Paint

“Because sometimes it doesn’t turn out the way you thought it would. Sometimes what you imagine in your head isn’t what comes out of the paintbrush. And then you start to realize something has gone horribly horribly wrong, and there’ll never be a way to put it back the way it was.”
― Joy McCullough, Blood Water Paint

“The disconnect of men
to women's bodies
stands to reason.
They'd have to care enough
to see the other as a subject
worthy of their earnest study.
My own oblivion horrifies me more.
I've been here all along
but somehow not.”
― Joy McCullough, Blood Water Paint

“I suppose it isn’t fair to fault my father, though he’s the one who used it, moved it, claimed it as his own because of course, he did. That’s just the way of things, I beg and fight and scrape for scraps while he just has to glance upon a thing to make it his.”
― Joy McCullough, Blood Water Paint

“But that day's not now.
And even if this horror
becomes an accent color -
a smudge of lead white
to highlight a cheekbone,
a bit of yellow ochre
the glint on a sword -
sometimes those are the pigments
that change one's perecption
of an entire work of art.”
― Joy McCullough, Blood Water Paint

“Sisters share a bond unlike any other – thornier, but also tender, full of possibility.”
― Joy McCullough, Blood Water Paint

“I can survive, a solitary creature. I have thus far. But just the thought that someone else might care what fate befalls me- it changes everything.”
― Joy McCullough, Blood Water Paint

“Because he is a monster. But he’s strong and powerful, and from most perspectives, he’s on the winning side. She has to ask herself – and women have asked themselves this question for centuries – would she rather be suffocated slowly for the rest of her life, or die quickly trying to accomplish something.”
― Joy McCullough, Blood Water Paint