Jenn James

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

“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

“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

“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