Jess

“People always say that there’s no point to worrying, but it isn’t true: one real advantage to comprehensive, thorough worrying is that you rarely get blindsided by a disaster you haven’t already considered. That doesn’t make it easier, but it takes the sharp new edge off and makes the problem into something worn in and familiar.”
― Cat Sebastian, Star Shipped

“It is easy to make fleeting footprints in the snow;
It is hard to make lasting marks in the stone.
Shall I dance ten thousand steps, unwitnessed?
Shall I make one carving, forever known?”
― Shen Tao, The Poet Empress

“why are women always expected to love those who would hurt us? To take care of those who would use us”
― Shen Tao, The Poet Empress

“and it drives her mad, the idea that the shape of her body determines the shape her life must take. That her beauty is something she is expected to pass on instead of keep.”
― V.E. Schwab, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil