Athena Macmillan

“His parents had raised him to believe that sex was something you did in private not because it was embarrassing, but because it was intimate.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“Now I know I’ll never be numb again. A mother is condemned to feel everything forever. And I’m finally afraid, condemned to fear everything forever. But that makes sense: feel someone else’s pain, feel someone else’s everything.
And he’s my baby, so everything’s okay.”
― Kristin Hersh, Rat Girl

“I could have lived through it all if only I continued to have the feeling that at the end of childhood, at the end of adolescence, there was something else in this life that would be mine, that I could make with my bare hands, and once I had made it, I could say, I did this to my life. I made my life so.”
― Paullina Simons, The Bridge to Holy Cross

“There are numerous oral stories which tell
of what it means, what it feels like, to be present while your history is erased
before your eyes, dismissed as irrelevant, ignored or rendered as the lunatic
ravings of drunken old people”
― Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples