Jessica

“You’ve no right to starve people, to punish them for no reason. No right to take away their life and freedom. Those are things everyone is born with, and they’re not yours for the taking. Winning a war doesn’t give you that right. Having more weapons doesn’t give you that right. Being from the Capitol doesn’t give you that right. Nothing does.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“I feel as though becoming a woman is like a long tradition of going through things and coming out strong, but I am tired and weary!”
― Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

“I knew that Prince was not killed by a single officer so much as he was murdered by his country and all the fears that have marked it from birth.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“He said, 'What do you want?' All I could think of was peeling the skin of a Valencia orange in bed on a bright morning with someone pulling me into the covers because they want to spend two or three minutes nestling before starting their day. So I said, 'Not much.”
― Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour