Janey

“I didn't know it was happiness at the time, because it felt like busyness and exhaustion and financial stress and self doubt.”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

“She caught sight of her boss first, who, in the torchlight, looked like a death god come to claim her soul.
Take it and whatever else you want.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer

“There’s no room for you in my life anymore. And I don’t owe it to you to make any space.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden