Jaymie Hoelldobler

“Because fighting about the past is easier than considering the future.”
― Beck Dorey-Stein, Spectacular Things

“I see my father, my mother, my brother, in a place where I can't return because I'm someone else.”
― Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

“They are giddy with disbelief and the infinite possibilities that ride shotgun to hope.”
― Beck Dorey-Stein, Spectacular Things

“Sometimes I miss my mother. Or maybe I miss the mother I didn't have. There is a void where a certain love should be, a different type of abyss. What rushes in to fill the space? Anxiety, doubt, a very specific melancholy. A steel wall has been built around the red of my heart when it comes to my mother. All of that red of me is trapped inside of metal, caught, kept.”
― Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe