Genna

“You unmanageable, contrary creature. You have made me believe in something at last. It feels as wretched as I imagined.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“My point is, there’s always something. I think, as a species, we have a desire to believe that we’re living at the climax of the story. It’s a kind of narcissism. We want to believe that we’re uniquely important, that we’re living at the end of history, that now, after all these millennia of false alarms, now is finally the worst that it’s ever been, that finally we have reached the end of the world.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“You know what Eleanor Roosevelt used to say: 'A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Because you cannot conceive of such brutality until you have witnessed it yourself.”
― Heather O'Neill