Jaan

“I suddenly knew nothing about myself, nothing seemed right in English, nothing was true.”
― Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

“But I think that she was capable of anything because everything had already happened to her. She was fearless because she'd already suffered what the rest of us live in fear of.”
― Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

“But from the get-go, they trained boys not to apologize and women to not expect it of them, to instead mutate pain into an art form.”
― Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

“Uncared for pain can morph into anger, violence, addiction, anxiety, hypervigilance, hyperdrive, guilt, procrastination, hopelessness, and, of course, the consuming of copious amounts of wine.”
― Kris Carr, I'm Not a Mourning Person: Braving Loss, Grief, and the Big Messy Emotions That Happen When Life Falls Apart