Gail Morey

“That was how he felt: that some of the threads of himself were connected but most of them weren’t, and that he was continually on the point of joining them all together without ever managing it.”
― Carys Davies, Clear

“Trauma people are almost as unbearable to me as Trump people. If you try suggesting that they let go of their suffering, their victimhood, they act retraumatized. It’s like, yes, what happened to you is shitty, I’m not denying that, but why do you keep rolling around in your own shit? If they stopped doing that for two seconds and got over themselves, even a little, they might actually become who they were meant to be.”
― Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

“She always felt perversely good during a crisis; a crisis justified the panic that rattled the cage of her body at least once a month.”
― Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch

“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey”
― Kenji Miyazawa