JustJess

“I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“It wasn’t that she didn’t want to die. Nor was it that she wanted to live. She just didn’t want to give up.”
― Fuyumi Ono, The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow

“Some women get erased a little at a time, some all at once. Some reappear. Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story, the genealogy, the rights of man, the rule of law. The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

“We do not suffer from a deficit of attention. Just the opposite. We have an abundance of attention! Our challenge is to control it. Once we do that, the sky is the limit in terms of what we can do in life.”
― Penn Holderness, ADHD is Awesome: A Guide to (Mostly) Thriving with ADHD