Jo

“Maybe this is what books do, she thinks, whether stories real or imagined or poems compiled in one place for people to flick through in search of what they need. They offer something universal but allow you to find your own meaning among the words. They are for everyone and yet they are for you too.”
― Libby Page, This Book Made Me Think of You

“Like any good, emotionally stunted writer, I've found linguistic loopholes to express my emotions while still preserving the labyrinthine collection of walls around my heart.”
― Geraldine DeRuiter, If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

“People smile at kids when they make mistakes and as they figure out their way in the world but forget that even as adults, there's still no road map and everyone's bumbling along as best they can. Maybe if grown-ups could see the kids they once were -- the kids who were still inside -- then everyone would be a little better for it.”
― Evelyn Skye, The Incredible Kindness of Paper

“I know that memories alter the more you revisit them, and I want mine to re main pristine. I want to hold that memory still, as if it were stuck in a snow globe, protected and unchanged even as the world swirls around it.”
― Geraldine DeRuiter, If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury