Jaime Kinsley

“There was no changing Mark. Or Jinx, or Shyanne, or how the world worked. They were like chess pieces: they moved how they moved. If you wanted to win, you couldn’t dwell on how you wished they’d move or how it’d be fairer if they moved a different way. You had to adapt.”
― Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

“ABOUT THE AUTHOR Andy Weir built a career as a software engineer until the success of his first published novel, The Martian, allowed him to live out his dream of writing full-time. He is a lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of subjects such as relativistic physics, orbital mechanics, and the history of manned spaceflight. He also mixes a mean cocktail. He lives in California.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“Decide on one grounding method that can help you come back to your body. One I find to be helpful is grounding with the five senses. To do this, you list things you notice around you while seated in place. You start by looking around and listing five things you can see. Then you scan the room again and list four things you can touch. After you’re done with the sense of touch, you move into listing three things you can hear. After you’ve finished that list, you look around again for two things you can smell. Finally, you list one thing that you can taste.”
― Mariel Buqué, Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma

“This book, therefore, ends not with answers but with a wish. I want to love and be loved. I want to find a way where I don’t hurt myself. I want to live a life where I say things are good more than things are bad. I want to keep failing and discovering new and better directions. I want to enjoy the tides of feeling in me as the rhythms of life. I want to be the kind of person who can walk inside the vast darkness and find the one fragment of sunlight I can linger in for a long time. Some day, I will.”
― Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki