Jess

“She never said shit like this to the boys, only to me. Like I was supposed to guilty of ambition while they were just living their full potential.”
― Kawai Strong Washburn, Sharks in the Time of Saviors

“We read the Bible how we want to read it. It doesn't change, but we do.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

“Always, always boys. Whole classes, boys shaped like teddy beats or tree lizards. Always first to pull out their opinions, shove their knowledge at each other. I guess there's many ways engineering could feel but mostly it felt like any place feels where there's twenty boys and three girls. I had to go in with my back like a rod. Be the baddest both is what I said, in my head. And then did.”
― Kawai Strong Washburn, Sharks in the Time of Saviors

“I had watched Nana walk into the alley and I had watched my mother go after him, and I was so angry at them for not being strong enough to stay in the light. And so I did the hard thing.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom