Jessica

“Oh, for God’s sake. Forty-nine is extremely young. If forty-nine is not young, that would make me old, and I am not old. I have reached the age of maturity to which all humans must particularly aspire; to dismiss this pinnacle of perfection as old age is to demean all of humankind.”
― Courtney Milan, Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton

“The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.”
― James Joyce, Dubliners

“I’ll keep doing it even though she’s not here to defend.
Because there are others like him still. Tonight they used words they know, words that don’t bother people anymore. They said bitch. They told another girl they would put their dicks in her mouth. No one protested because this is our language now. But then I used my words, strung in phrases that cut deep, and people paid attention; people gasped. People didn’t know what to think.
My language is shocking.”
― Mindy McGinnis, The Female of the Species