Jenna Bookish

“Is that what love is? Discovering a missing jigsaw piece and finding that it fits? Are we all born incomplete, compelled to search for the lost bits of us? ”
― Charlie Laidlaw, The Things We Learn When We're Dead

“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“On the day I turn seventeen, there is a meeting to decide whether I should have the baby or if sneaking me to a clinic for an abortion is worth the PR risk. I am not invited, which is just as well, since my being there might imply that I have some choice in the matter and I know that I have none.”
― Meghan MacLean Weir, The Book of Essie

“Most of us understand that your future is not promised to you. It is constructed day by day, through the choices you make. Your future is earned, little by little, through hard work and action. If you don't act accordingly, that dream dissolves.
If punishment is based on potential, privileged people will be given lighter sentences.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name