Mathilda

“A slave digs his own pit and stands in it, peering over the edge at everyone else's feet and counting himself lucky whenever they don't step on him.
That's what Aristotle thought, anyway.”
― James Hynes, Sparrow

“Psychiatry is one of the patriarchy’s favored tools to control women.”
― Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

“Instead, I have the freedom of the unremarkable, the powerless, and the insignificant.”
― James Hynes, Sparrow

“... if he climbs just a little higher, he can escape, he can sail away and never come back. He can be Sparrow for ever. But of course, he's forgotten about the string, the one they tied around his leg. He's pulled it as taut as he can, higher and higher, further and further away from the city below, but he can never pull it far enough. He can never pull it until it breaks.”
― James Hynes, Sparrow