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Jenny
https://www.goodreads.com/jenbrannan
“I am here. Solid, steadily moving through the world. I can be alone. I can be a force. I don't need half-love, half-life, half is not enough. I can be whole with nothing. I came from nothing. I came from nowhere. I can be anywhere now, without. Here I am without. But here I am. Flying”
― Rest and Be Thankful
― Rest and Be Thankful
“He listened to her question carefully and respectfully. Her daddy, she said, had told her that if you had a really hard question, you had to go to the library to find the answer, because at the library they knew the answers to almost all the questions.”
― Firestarter
― Firestarter
“but he didn’t want to be supported by fat people and the average-bodied White women who shouldered their way in; he wanted to be supported by the medical community who never stopped making him feel like he was on the brink of death and bringing society down with him.”
― Nothing Tastes as Good
― Nothing Tastes as Good
“We want to imagine that people are consistent, steady, stable. We define who they are, create descriptions to lock them on a page, divide them up by their likes, talents, beliefs. Then we pretend some—perhaps most—are better than we are, because they stick to their definitions, while we never quite fit ours. Truth is, people are as fluid as time is. We adapt to our situation like water in a strangely shaped jug, though it might take us a little while to ooze into all the little nooks. Because we adapt, we sometimes don’t recognize how twisted, uncomfortable, or downright wrong the container is that we’ve been told to inhabit.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
“In a house where food was love but eating was shameful, family meals were both a relief and a curse, a volatile push-and-pull of comfort and fear.”
― Nothing Tastes as Good
― Nothing Tastes as Good
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