Jackie Feldman

“I sometimes feel"—Elsa laughed—"like I'm still waiting to be discovered."
"For what?" Sam asked.
"I'm hoping when they find me they'll tell me.”
― Madison Newbound, Misrecognition

“Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it.”
― Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates

“find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am worthy of love and capable of loving. i am capable of loving and worthy of love.”
― Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

“She was the sort of person who saw lonely, solitary sadness, when all around her there was love just pouring forth, just gushing forth from every direction. She was the sort of person who saw only one apple in a tree that was just littered with apples.”
― Sheila Heti, Alphabetical Diaries