Jasmine

“And then I think I don't need to write anything down ever again. Nothing's gone, not really. Everything that's ever happened has left its little wound.”
― Sarah Manguso, Ongoingness: The End of a Diary

“What does it say about our culture that the desire for weight loss is considered a default feature of womanhood?”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“Ever since I was left somewhat alone, without gods, I have been a ferocious believer in the power of small coincidences.”
― Valeria Luiselli, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions

“how do you explain that it is never inspiration that drives you to tell a story, but rather a combination of anger and clarity? How do you say: No, we do not find inspiration here, but we find a country that is as beautiful as it is broken, and we are somehow now part of it, so we are also broken with it, and feel ashamed, confused, and sometimes hopeless, and are trying to figure out how to do something about all that.”
― Valeria Luiselli, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions