Aenea Jones

“Accomplishing goals is not success. How much you expand in the process is.”
― Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

“Yet they must have loved each other once. At the end of an interminable corridor, screened by a bedroom door, their sexuality is like a monster crouching just beyond my field of vision: omnipresent (my father's outbursts of jealousy are the daily evidence) but completely covert (I have no memory of the slightest embrace, the slightest kiss, the tiniest gesture of affection between my parents).”
― Vanessa Springora, Consent

“I was six years old. A studious little girl, bright and hardworking, obedient and well behaved, and vaguely melancholy, as is often the case with the children of divorced parents.”
― Vanessa Springora, Consent

“Since my father had fallen off the radar, I had begun desperately trying to attract men's attention. It was a waste of effort. I was completely unattractive; I lacked the slightest physical allure.”
― Vanessa Springora