Jessie

“She looked away. "I'm well now."

She wasn't; she was suffering from severe stubbornness.”
― Evie Dunmore, Bringing Down the Duke

“The notion of my future suddenly snapped into focus: it didn't exist yet. I was making it, standing there, breathing, fixing the air around my body with stillness, trying to capture something—a thought, I guess—as though such a thing were possible, as though I believed in the delusion described in those paintings—that time could be contained, held captive.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“I've seen enough to know that you can be a human with a mountain of resources and you can be a human with nothing, and you can be a monster either way.”
― Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

“Two people in pain are magnets, repelling each other. We cannot or will not reach across the space to connect.”
― Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After