Jensen

“Because sometimes it doesn’t turn out the way you thought it would. Sometimes what you imagine in your head isn’t what comes out of the paintbrush. And then you start to realize something has gone horribly horribly wrong, and there’ll never be a way to put it back the way it was.”
― Joy McCullough, Blood Water Paint

“Because he is a monster. But he’s strong and powerful, and from most perspectives, he’s on the winning side. She has to ask herself – and women have asked themselves this question for centuries – would she rather be suffocated slowly for the rest of her life, or die quickly trying to accomplish something.”
― Joy McCullough, Blood Water Paint

“The disconnect of men
to women's bodies
stands to reason.
They'd have to care enough
to see the other as a subject
worthy of their earnest study.
My own oblivion horrifies me more.
I've been here all along
but somehow not.”
― Joy McCullough, Blood Water Paint

“I suppose it isn’t fair to fault my father, though he’s the one who used it, moved it, claimed it as his own because of course, he did. That’s just the way of things, I beg and fight and scrape for scraps while he just has to glance upon a thing to make it his.”
― Joy McCullough, Blood Water Paint