J Wong

“The kaleidoscope of experiences you have had this year are deeply meaningful and have enhanced your perspective on what actually matters. You have seen firsthand how fleeting and fragile life is and it has changed your DNA. Your tolerance for bullshit is lessening and although you are not always graceful with how you fight back, I love that you are a scrappy little lady. You are bored with the value system you see celebrated around you. Compromise is sometimes just manipulation and you are learning to identify that. You see a need for more people, women especially, to push back against the system that is in place and you've decided to do more of that. This experience will only turn up the volume on your voice the next time around. Hell yes to this and go go go.”
― Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

“I think a trauma doesn’t stop just because you’ve been rescued.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Butterfly Garden

“What I have is a healthy sense of spite and a determination that someday I’m going to learn how to do this thing called living. Maybe that’s as far as justice can stretch.”
― Dot Hutchison, Roses of May

“No cause that can't withstand justified questioning is truly worth following. If our present can't be sorted neatly into heroes and villains, then neither can our past. It's good that you're doubting your ancestors, and it's good that you're wrestling with what you've been taught. All that means is whatever path you choose, it'll be because it's what you truly believe, not just because someone else wants it for you.”
― Roseanne A. Brown, A Psalm of Storms and Silence