Loosh

“Why, though, does it take a mother, daughter, sister for men to take a woman at her word?”
― Joy McCullough, Blood Water Paint

“Those previous versions of herself were so distant now that remembering them was almost like remembering other people, acquaintances, young women whom she’d known a long time ago, and she felt such compassion for them. “I regret nothing,” she told her reflection in the ladies’ room mirror, and believed it.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“I had a dream I put my hands inside my chest and held my heart to try to keep it still.”
― Mariko Tamaki, Skim

“We define ourselves by the best that is in us, not the worst that has been done to us.”
― Edward Lewis