Jacqui Adams

“For many, many years to come, I would keep telling myself that the barest minimum of acknowledgment from lovers was enough.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“I don’t just want you to like me, I want to be one of the most joy-inducing human beings that you’ve ever encountered. I want to explode on your night sky like fireworks at midnight on New Year’s Eve in Hong Kong.”
― Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist

“I reserve my most elaborate delusions and disappointments for myself.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious faith. But I learn it right there in the hallway: I cannot do what's been done to me.”
― Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice