Jen

“Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky. ”
― Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

“To love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West

“[W]e’ve learned that grief can sometimes get loud, and when it does, we try not to speak over it.”
― Bill Clegg, Did You Ever Have a Family

“Unsupervised reading is a blessing for a certain kind of child”
― Victor LaValle, The Changeling