Joanna Simpson

“Her life had started with trouble, risen to the stars, and would now end in misery.”
― Bella Forrest, Lights, Camera, Gone

“Power—there it was again. It baffled me how much people were willing to do and sacrifice in order to gain and keep it. There was a depraved lunacy in the pursuit of it that spoke to the darker side of humanity.”
― Bella Forrest, The Gender Lie

“She wanted to get at the hate of them all, to pry at it and work at it until she found a little chink, and then pull out a pebble or a stone or a brick and then a part of the wall, and, once started, the whole edifice might roar down and be done away with. —RAY BRADBURY, THE ILLUSTRATED MAN”
― Jodi Picoult, Small Great Things

“A shaman walks the thin line of insanity and bliss.”
― Lori Morrison, Lori: The Disintegration of My Ordinary Reality