Ruth

“Men didn’t have the same burden, so how could he know? How could I expect him to understand? No man really could. They got points just for sticking around and not leaving. Their bar for parenthood was set so low, you could step over it. Ours was impossible to reach, and there was no way to win no matter what you did.”
― Lucinda Berry, Keep Your Friends Close

“Whoever coined the phrase “sticks and stones” is an asshole, don’t you think? Words indeed hurt more than stones. Thanks for trying to gaslight me out of it though. It didn’t work.”
― K.M. Moronova, The Fabric of Our Souls

“You are going to get very confused about who’s really the hero and who’s really the villain of the story, and that’s what I want. To show you that no matter what we look like, act like, have, accomplish, where we live, where we come from, etc., it’s up to us to decide who we want to be, not what the world thinks we should be. XOXO, Jeneane”
― Jeneane O'Riley, What Did You Do?

“There is beauty to be found in the dark, just as there is horror within the light.”
― Jeneane O'Riley, How Does It Feel?