Jenna

“Society never accepts every facet of a woman’s true nature— especially their grief and trauma and darkness—though it feasts on those things until it consumes them”
― Brynne Weaver, Tourist Season

“Maybe you’ve never done poverty math. If so, lucky you. It’s the Olympic sport of the working poor, the mental gymnastics performed by a woman with $36.82 in her checking account and an empty fridge at home, desperately trying to calculate just what shopping-basket Jenga will stave off both bankruptcy and malnutrition in the ten days to go before payday.”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library

“Like his lonely and her lonely fit perfectly into the empty spaces at the other’s side, saying nothing, asking nothing, just keeping each other company.”
― Sangu Mandanna, A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping

“Art doesn’t exist to make you feel good,” the Gallerist said as though reading my mind. “Art exists to make you”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library