Sarah

“The famed MRS degree, because in practice, a female brain is worth nothing. Four lobes of the cerebrum, and I have sometimes imagined one of mine labeled RAGE.”
― Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay

“There's safety in being locked away in the dark. Other people's dismissal of me, their discomfort around me, their unwillingness or inability to see me as anything other than a walking tragedy— this all absolved me of a certain responsibility. I was free, in a sense, to live outside the realm of people. And I was free to feel superior to people who would exclude me. It is hard to leave the darkness and step out into bright and baring light.”
― Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty

“We'd not been given perfection, not godliness, not symmetry, not gracious measurement, not a bad hand, nor a curse; we'd not been given anything other than a life to spend together; our lives, not easy or free from pain; we'd been given only a real life, dreadfully normal and sublime, and I would no longer betray its beauty by wishing it otherwise.”
― Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty

“I want to get down something T.S. Eliot said: Human beings are capable of passions that human experience can never live up to.”
― Sigrid Nunez, A Feather on the Breath of God