Jen Sainty

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“Is life, then, a violent burst of light, like flint struck sharply in the dark?”
― Jamaica Kincaid, At the Bottom of the River

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“Beauty is a kind of vital, ferocious burning at a soul’s center that ignites everything it touches.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

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“As a carpenter can make a gibbet as well as an altar, a writer can describe the world as trivial or exquisite, as material or as idea, as senseless or as purposeful. Words are wood.”
― Mary Oliver, Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems

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“Knowledge has entertained me and it has shaped me and it has failed me.”
― Mary Oliver, Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems

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“When man imposes his will on woman she knows how to give him the pleasure of assuming his power is greater and his will becomes her pleasure; but when the woman accomplishes this, the man never gives her a feeling of any pleasure, only of guilt for having spoken first and reversed the roles.”
― Anaïs Nin, Ladders to Fire

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