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

“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

“Josie knew, then, that better than searching for a person of courage -- she'd been on this search for years, dear god -- better and possibly easier than searching for such people in the extant world was to 'create' them. She didn't need to find humans of integrity and courage. She needed to 'make' them.”
― Dave Eggers, Heroes of the Frontier

“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