Beth James

“The unloved watch the loved perform the small rituals of their loving.”
― Deborah Levy, The Unloved

“What did my fingers do before they held him?”
― Sylvia Plath

“How can we resist exploitation if we don’t have the tools to understand exploitation?”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at me as though it were a thread fastened to my chest. It was an impulse I knew well, and I had learned that it was not the summons from a larger world I used to believe it to be. It was simply a desire to escape from what I had.”
― Rachel Cusk, Outline