Marissa Jauch

“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

“No one likes an angry woman. She is the worst kind of villain: a witch, obnoxious and ugly and full of spite and bitterness. Shrill. I do anything to avoid that feeling, anything to stop myself from being that woman. I try to make anything resembling anger seem spunky and charming and sexy. I fold it into something small, tuck it away.”
― Emily Ratajkowski, My Body

“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