Ryen Willson

“Believing something is just a way of trying to convince yourself that something you so desperately want is real.”
― Bella Jewel, Angels in Leather

“Whilst so many of my friends were paying extortionate amounts to increase their fertility and chances of pregnancy, I was swatting away my partner´s penis like an annoying fly.”
― Emma Gannon, Olive

“You’re fucking exquisite, inocencia. Like a fucking dream”
― Bella Jewel, Enslaved by the Ocean

“Loss – what does he know about it, I ask you? He’s barely out of nappies for Christ’s sake. I’d say the closest he’s ever come to loss was his virginity, and even at that I can’t be sure he’s old enough. No one, no one really knows loss until it’s someone you love. The deep-down kind of love that holds on to your bones and digs itself right in under your fingernails, as hard to budge as the years of compacted earth. And when it’s gone … it’s as if it’s been ripped from you. Raw and exposed, you stand dripping blood all over the good feckin’ carpet. Half”
― Anne Griffin, When All Is Said