Josie Lambert

“She has the same feeling she'd had when he unceremoniously handed her back her underwear. Like it was a technicality she hadn't specifically told him she wanted to be treated like a person.”
― Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories

“I often look at the world and just think fuck it, why bother, but I know that’s how we are supposed to feel, that’s why the corruption is so naked and freely visible – to wear down people who have the conviction that things could be better.”
― Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

“I have always believed that in our capitalist, consumerist society, we devour each other.”
― Agustina Bazterrica

“With that violent grudge against the world which had scorned her, sneered at her, cast her off, beginning with this indignity – the infliction of her unlovable body which people could not bear to see. Do her hair as she might, her forehead remained like an egg, bald, white. No clothes suited her. She might buy anything. And for a woman, of course, that meant never meeting the opposite sex. Never would she come first with any one. Sometimes lately it had seemed to her that, except for Elizabeth, her food was all that she lived for; her comforts; her dinner; her tea; her hot-water bottle at night.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway