Marissa Jauch

“People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.”
― Stephen King, Carrie

“That's what men do in this world to fertile things: put fences around them and make them procreate at any cost.”
― Barbara Bourland, The Force of Such Beauty

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Maybe there must always be two of us--our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is.”
― Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe