Jané

“Digging into other people's stories leaves traces on you. You can't reflect on narrative, the stories humans tell, without reflecting on your own.”
― Brin Hodgskiss, Killer Stories: Conversations With South African Serial Murderers

“Men assumed themselves to be the centre of gravity around which women revolved, and I resented not only how naturally it came to women to anticipate their needs, but also how deft I was becoming at making these invisible.”
― Margie Orford, Love and Fury: A Memoir

“We are continually moulded throughout our lives by our own idea of ourselves. Our selves - our sense of who we are in the world - are being shaped by the secret engines of our stories.”
― Brin Hodgskiss, KILLER STORIES - Conversations with South African serial murderers

“I did not know then that obliviousness to risk was not courage; it was a way of countering numbness.”
― Margie Orford