Jenn James

“you know what, sometimes it seems to me we're living in a world that we fabricate for ourselves. We decide what's good and what isn't, we draw maps of meanings for ourselves... And then we spend our whole lives struggling with what we have invented for ourselves.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“the only way to understand the world as something other than a tale of loss is to see it as a tale of change.”
― Daniel Mason, North Woods

“What Ryan had learned from this is that your failures keep returning to you, while your successes are something you always have to convince yourself of”
― Rachel Cusk, Outline

“I did crave attention, but I refused to humiliate myself by asking for it.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation