Jess

“She likes to read, she reads all the time, and she prefers to be reading several things at once, she says it gives endless perspective and dimension.”
― Ali Smith, Autumn

“I have always been disturbed by this transition, by the reality that often the only way to capture someone’s attention and to encourage them to recognize their own internal biases (and to work to alter them) is to confront them with sensational stories of suffering. Why is my humanity only seen or cared about when I share the ways in which I have been victimized and violated?”
― Vivek Shraya , I'm Afraid of Men.

“Survival is insufficient.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“Maybe someday we will find refuge in true reality. In the meantime, can I just say how opposed I am to all of this?”
― Alejandra Pizarnik, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972