Jade

“Dance is the universal art, the common joy of expression. Those who cannot dance are imprisoned in their own ego and cannot live well with other people and the world. They have lost the tune of life. They only live in cold thinking. Their feelings are deeply repressed while they attach themselves forlornly to the earth.”
― Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo: A Novel

“Pull down its walls, see what’s truly on the other side of them.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Fifth Doll

“Scars mean we survived something, even when the wounds still hurt.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Summer Children

“Perhaps, he considered, her hypocrisy had become so ingrained that she was no longer even capable of perceiving it as such.”
― John Connolly, The Woman in the Woods