Jenny

“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.”
― Luke Dumas, Nothing Tastes as Good

“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.”
― Stephen King, Firestarter

“The thing with stories is if you hear enough ones about freedom, about escape, true or not, you begin to think they're possible for you.”
― Chip Zdarsky, Stillwater, Vol. 3: Border Crossing

“I needed alcohol to drink away the things that plagued me. Not just my doubts about sex. My self-consciousness, my loneliness, my insecurities, my fears. I drank away all the parts that made me human, in other words, and I knew this was wrong.”
― Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget