Jamie > Jamie's Quotes

“It’s amazing how locking down one key demographic, white people in rich countries, means you can get your claws into the world so tightly, you can tear it all to pieces around you.”
― Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

“I was okay just a moment ago. I will learn how to be okay again.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“Sweet mother, I cannot weave –
slender Aphrodite has overcome me
with longing for a girl.”
― Sappho, Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works

“Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.”
― Emma Donoghue, Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

“someone will remember us
I say
even in another time”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“Girls hunger. And we’re taught, from the moment our brains can take it, that there isn’t enough food for us all.”
― Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

“Once I was a stupid girl; now I am an angry woman.”
― Emma Donoghue, Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

“I want to be a body for you. I want to chase you, find you, I want to be eluded and teased and adored; I want to be defeated and victorious—I want you to cut me, sharpen me. I want to drink tea beside you in ten years or a thousand. Flowers grow far away on a planet they’ll call Cephalus, and these flowers bloom once a century, when the living star and its black-hole binary enter conjunction.I want to fix you a bouquet of them, gathered across eight hundred thousand years, so you can draw our whole engagement in a single breath, all the ages we’ve shaped together.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“You and I -- we're just atoms that arranged themselves the right way, and we can understand that about ourselves. Is that not amazing?”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“The entitled assholes of the world are sustained by girls who forgive too easily.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“when you cherish someone for how amazing they are, you don't pluck them from their roots just to watch them wither in your hands. You help them bloom into the incredible thing they're really meant to be.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“Shame. That was their favorite tool. A tool to corrode me from the inside until I believed I could only accept whatever lot they threw at my bound feet. It didn't work. Despite their best efforts, I find myself worthy of happiness.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“Community is when you never let go of each other. Not even after you’re gone.”
― Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

“Even here, at the gates of hell … dyke drama reigns supreme.”
― Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

“It wasn’t like chocolate, Lily thought. It was like finding water after a drought. She couldn’t drink enough, and her thirst made her ashamed, and the shame made her angry.”
― Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

“An unfamiliar emotion swelled inside her at this image. A strangely sharp pang for a place she had never visited. For a people she resembled but did not know.”
― Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

“I'm done begging for a scrap of respect-I am done with those who enact suffering, and I am done with the sons of bitches who stand back and let it happen.”
― Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

“I want to explain her in a way that would make you love her, but the problem with this is that loving is something we all do alone and through different sets of eyes.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“In my head, I think I’m often telling Miri stories, logging away information or things I’ve seen in order to tell her about them later.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“We know already that life exists everywhere, even in the places as yet inaccessible, and we know too that that life has things to
teach us and must be sought out”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“Because they gave birth to something they do not understand, because they tried so many times to fix me and they failed.”
― Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

“To separate how you are seen from who you are sometimes feels nigh impossible.”
― Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

“Men all hurt us in their own unique ways. None of us carry the same bruises, the same aches.”
― Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth