Jess ~

“You'll never be alone in this world if you have a library card.”
― John Green, Hollywood, Ending

“And it may seem now like it’s someone else’s children, but there’s no such thing as someone else’s children.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“Popular culture isn’t an innocuous force; we don’t go through adolescence—watching scenes and reading books and hearing jokes and listening to all kinds of dialogue—while wearing an invisible force field that bounces bad ideas away. We learn an awful lot of what we know from the stories we encounter.”
― Sophie Gilbert, Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

“In the early aughts, in any direction you looked, popular culture was constantly promoting and celebrating an ‘empowered’ vision of sexuality that was wholeheartedly informed by male desire and male pleasure.”
― Sophie Gilbert, Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves