Liz

“If you’re sitting in the living room but want to be in the kitchen, the first thing you have to do is realize you’re in the fucking living room.” Oh God, I thought. Good News Jack is speaking in metaphor again. I nodded, following the concept thus far. “Otherwise,” he said, “you’ll never know to get up and walk into the kitchen.” I stared at him with my mouth open. We can’t get someplace new until we’re honest about where we are.”
― Janelle Hanchett, I'm Just Happy to Be Here: A Memoir of Renegade Mothering

“From a moral perspective, the man was guilty; from a legal perspective, the man was likely innocent. That both those things were possible was of course understood.”
― Katie Kitamura, Intimacies

“I just feel pathetic, Jack. I was sitting there like a motherfucking loser, and I just feel pathetic.” Against all evidence of my time working with him, I still expected words of encouragement, words like, “Oh you’re not pathetic. Look at all you’ve done, Janelle! You’re a shining star!” But after a pause, he asked, “Wouldn’t it be great if you could be okay with being pathetic?”
― Janelle Hanchett, I'm Just Happy to Be Here: A Memoir of Renegade Mothering

“Interpretation was a matter of great subtlety, a word with many contexts, for example it is often said that an actor interprets a role, or a musician a piece of music.”
― Katie Kitamura, Intimacies