Jess

“If no one takes a stand, a stand won't be taken.”
― Courtney Hargrave, Burden: A Preacher, a Klansman and a True Story of Redemption in the Modern South

“If you look into someone else’s dreams, all you ever find are nightmares.”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

“No one, no one really knows loss until it’s someone you love. The deep-down kind of love that holds on to your bones and digs itself right in under your fingernails, as hard to budge as the years of compacted earth. And when it’s gone … it’s as if it’s been ripped from you. Raw and exposed, you stand dripping blood all over the good feckin’ carpet. Half-human, half-dead, one foot already in the grave.”
― Anne Griffin, When All Is Said

“Don’t be hostage to your expectations, she would teach. Sometimes trauma doesn’t look the way you think it should.”
― T. Christian Miller, A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America