Jamie Wren-jarvis

“thought about how God, belief in God, in this God, has done violence to these people. Has warped them and bent them so that they can’t even acknowledge any longer that they have desires, let alone learn how to act on them.”
― Naomi Alderman, Disobedience

“Fear makes liars of us all.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“I learned: they never see the glass coming. They only see the reflection of the sky.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“My anger dissolves grandmas in acid lakes and razes quaint Pacific Northwest towns with ash and asphyxiates jet engines with its grit. Lava keeps leaking down my slopes. You should have listened to the scientist. You should have evacuated earlier.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House