Janene

“No one taught me what a period was, or sex, or cooking or cleaning or taking care of myself. No one taught me how to win races, or how to become an escape artist, or how to carry pain, or how to resist the pull to die. I made it up.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, Reading the Waves: A Memoir

“But dying alone, cradled by the universe, continuous with the rest of its energy, wasn’t something I dreaded anymore. Worse things had already happened.”
― Sarah Manguso, Liars

“I have a fear in me. Something I hope isn't true. It is that the holes inside his parents that drove them into each other's arms as well as into making art are also in his body somehow. Like he carries a trace of our sadness and pain even as he will become a completely different person.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, Reading the Waves: A Memoir

“But hey, that’s humanity! It’s silly and pointless, aside from punctuations of brightness afforded by love and friendship.”
― Kristen Arnett, Stop Me If You've Heard This One