Raquel

“I think sacrifice is in direct opposition to manifestation. If you want your dreams you should look for abundance, not scarcity.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“Women are raised to work with dexterity, to keep their nimble fingers ready, their minds alert. It is her job to know how to handle the stream of bombs, how to kindly decline giving her number, how to move a hand from the button of her jeans, to turn down a drink. When a woman is assaulted, one of the first questions people ask is, Did you say no?”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name: A Memoir

“Guess that’s where the tears came from, knowing that there’s so much in this great big world that you don’t have a single ounce of control over. Guess the sooner you learn that, the sooner you’ll have one less heartbreak in your life. Oh Lord. Some evenings I don’t know where the old pains end and the new ones begin. Feels like the older you get the more they run into one long, deep aching.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone

“silent togetherness is what Scandinavian families do naturally, and it may be what they do best.”
― Hope Jahren, Lab Girl