maddison

“being a woman has meant being someone who gets talked over in conversations or ignored; someone who gets judged as a body instead of as a sentient soul; someone who, no matter who you are or what you are doing, always has to be on guard, lest someone else decide that you’re going to be his victim.”
― Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

“Everybody's damaged by something.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“I bang my head on a faucet. “Careful.” Why do persons only say that after the hurt?”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven