Crystal

“I know this is weird, but sometimes when you’re older, the worst place in the world might be your own brain.”
― Megan Giddings, The Women Could Fly

“Sometimes, I thought my ability to joke about anything, anytime, anywhere was proof something was fundamentally wrong with me. Sometimes, I wondered if it was the only thing keeping me alive.”
― Megan Giddings, The Women Could Fly

“But I also kept thinking of every man I had ever known. The ones from high school who were now in jail or had DUIs or posted pictures on social media of their assault rifles. The men I would see at campus parties where at least two women would discreetly point to them and say, “Watch your drink when he’s around.” The men who would walk too close behind me when I was going home alone at night, who made me grip my keys in my hand, made me reach in my purse and pretend I had a canister of pepper spray in my palm. None of them had to sacrifice their privacy like this. I”
― Megan Giddings, The Women Could Fly

“Some adventures require nothing more than a willing heart and the ability to trip over the cracks in the world.”
― Seanan Maguire