jessica

“Worlds self-made and self-nourished are so full of ghosts and monsters.”
― Anaïs Nin, House of Incest

“My love is like a lone star,
At the top of a black sky.
Turn my back and shine from afar.
Lone star gone in the daylight.”
― Jessica Rohrbaugh, Temple of Lush: Poems & Prose

“From the very beginning, humans name animals and humans name each other. Yet here, for the first and only time in a Divine encounter, a human, a woman, names God. Hagar names God el ro'i, "God Who sees me.”
― Elyse Goldstein, The Women's Torah Commentary: New Insights from Women Rabbis on the 54 Weekly Torah Portions

“Most women faked half their lives daily, pretending to have their work and their family and their health completely under control, moving through the world with just enough makeup and effortless shampoo-commercial hair. They were the ones wearing beautiful cream-colored knitted sweaters in white rooms on their Instagram pages. They were the ones spouting corny philosophical sayings and talking about their many blessings. Meanwhile, they were taking prescription drugs just to stand up straight in the morning and their husbands were on their fourth affair with someone from their workplace.”
― Christina Henry, Good Girls Don’t Die