Jessica Arend

“I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand”
― Alice Sebold, Lucky

“You never live with a woman, you live inside of her, I overheard my father say to my brother once, and it was, indeed, as if, when peering into the mirror, you were blinking out through her thickly fringed eyes.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties

“L'Age Licence. As in: License to experience, mess up, license to fail, license to do... whatever, before you're settled.”
― Lucy Knisley, An Age of License: A Travelogue

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver