Savannah

“While Wollen wasn’t wrong that society expects girls to swallow their sadness, sadness is still tolerated in a woman far more than anger. An angry woman is dangerous, unpredictable, uncontrollable. She must immediately be punished, shamed, or medicated back into complacency. Anger aims outward, disrupting systems and inconveniencing those in power, whereas we tend to turn our sadness inward, on ourselves—not bothering anyone or making a mess.”
― Lilly Dancyger, First Love: Essays on Friendship

“I mean that lots of people think that they’re nice because their lives are nice,” I said. “It’s nothing to be pleasant if you sleep in a warm bed, always have a full stomach, and spend your days among other pleasant people. That’s not goodness. That’s good living.”
― Anna Bright, The Hedgewitch of Foxhall: An Epic Fantasy Featuring Dragons and Witches

“in fiction the story value holds dominance over every other facet of the writer's craft; characterization, theme, mood, none of those things is anything if the story is dull. And if the story does hold you, all else can be forgiven.”
― Stephen King, Night Shift