Emylee Gussler

“I wanted to be someone who didn’t flinch when the subject of me came up. There were so many things I could’ve told her about myself, about why I was the way I am, but I wanted Linden to like me. I chose silence.”
― Megan Giddings, The Women Could Fly

“There have always been greedy people. It’s not unnatural to be greedy. If you spend enough time being afraid, thinking of only survival, it leads to hoarding. Cruel isolation can set in. The poison that makes people want to be kings, to do things and not consider the harm their actions bring, to value things and power over life, can saturate a person’s brain. Even in the past, people were always making a crucial choice: Is life the most valuable thing of all, or is the most valuable thing of all your personal pleasure?”
― Megan Giddings, The Women Could Fly

“Sometimes, I thought my ability to joke about anything, anytime, anywhere was proof something was fundamentally wrong with me. Sometimes, I wondered if it was the only thing keeping me alive.”
― Megan Giddings, The Women Could Fly

“It’s a truth all people should know but they spend most of their lives working actively to forget: there is no power without the potential for harm.”
― Megan Giddings, The Women Could Fly