Pinecone Jam

“Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“All my life,” she said, “I have been told ‘go’ and ‘come.’ I am told how I will live, and I am told how I must die. I must be a man’s servant and a mare for his pleasure, or I must hide myself behind walls and surrender my flesh to a cold, silent god. I would walk into the jaws of hell itself, if it were a path of my own choosing. I would rather die tomorrow in the forest than live a hundred years of the life appointed me. Please. Please let me help you.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“Excellent. Ignorance is most undervalued in a student.”
― Gail Carriger, Etiquette & Espionage

“In California everyone just gets…caught up. We don’t think much beyond how we want people to see us, like us.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Sacrifice