Jennifer

“Tell me how you are."
"I'm fine, Mother."
"No one is fine. Fine is a placeholder.”
― Marisa Silver, Mary Coin

“There is no end
To what a living world
Will demand of you.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“But I must start at the beginning, if I can find it. Beginnings are elusive things. Just when you think you have hold of one, you look back and see another, earlier beginning, and an earlier one before that. Even if you start with "Chapter One: I Am Born, " you still have the problem of antecedents, of cause and effect.”
― Hillary Jordan, Mudbound