Jackie Giesbrecht

“You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“I don't know how to force the world into a shape I can manage.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations

“It’s not life I’m tired of, with its astonishing ocean currents and layers of ice and all the delicate feathers that make up a wing. It’s myself.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations

“There's no such thing as safety. Only degrees of risk.”
― Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars