Jessy

“I’m riding motorcycles for a job, Mother! They’re calling us the Flying Wrens, and in case you’ve forgotten, there’s a war going on! People are losing their families.’ She shook her head. ‘It’s not about me wanting to do something forbidden; I’m actually doing an important job, work that truly means something.’ She thought of Florence losing her family, and of the people all over Great Britain who had someone who wasn’t coming home. When she’d applied for the job, all she’d been able to think about was the freedom it would afford her, but now it already seemed like so much more than that.”
― Soraya M. Lane, The London Girls

“But surely every man is his own god: Fortune refuses her aid to those who merely pray, and take no action.”
― Ovid, The Fall of Icarus

“I just wish I woulda kept trying to look to the light instead of sinking into the dark,” he said. “A man can learn to live in that dark, but it’s no life.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Hide from the Light

“My love hadn’t diminished - it never would - but at times my patience was wearing thin. Waylon’s wandering ways hadn’t completely stopped and yet I remained resolute. I stayed.”
― Jessi Colter, An Outlaw and a Lady: A Memoir of Music, Life with Waylon, and the Faith that Brought me Home