Dascha Jones

“It’s not just that so many shitty things have happened to me, it’s that for the longest time I didn’t know how to make my life better. Finally, as if I were someone discovering a secret door in a secret garden, the future revealed itself to me. But now that I’m here, I still feel the weight of the past. Sometimes it’s like my legs have been bound with anchor chains, and I’ve been thrown off a ship into the cruel ocean, and all I can do is sink.”
― Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

“One loss wasn’t worse than the other, but it was the second that did us in.”
― Rebecca Makkai, I Have Some Questions For You

“A dying person can take pride in her thinness, point at her hipbones, and say, “Look how skinny I am!” as if it’s a nice bonus, and you can’t shout, “You’re skinny because you’re DYING, you silly woman!”
― Liane Moriarty, Here One Moment

“It’s both creepy and out of my control, this ability I have to notice so much about other people when I’m positive no one notices anything at all about me.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa