Jenn James

“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

“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

“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

“I also feel it’s better to be deeply loved (which you are) than widely liked (which you probably also are! but I won’t labour the point.)”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You