Bridget

“Someday we'll learn again how to train on this living place, and holding still will be like flying.”
― Richard Powers, Bewilderment

“Always it was the same, Furlong thought; always they carried mechanically on without pause, to the next job at hand. What would life be like, he wondered, if they were given time to think and reflect over things? Might their lives be different or much the same – or would they just lose the run of themselves?”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“Yet despite all these things we know to be true- despite the preponderance of evidence showing the mental and emotional distress people demonstrate in violent and harassing environments- we still have no name for what happens to women living in a culture that hates them.”
― Jessica Valenti, Sex Object: A Memoir

“I thought of a friend in La who'd said recently of her own daughter, "It feels wrong to give her all this happiness and confidence when we know what is coming. Seventh grade is going to hit like a wall. It feels like fattening a pig for slaughter." But what was the alternative? Starving the pig?”
― Rebecca Makkai, I Have Some Questions for You