jiya ✧*。

“the world pressed shame into women like pillows into their faces.”
― Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man

“It was in nightmares, and crashing pans, and heavy breaths, and dropped pencils, and thunderstorms, and closing doors, and too loud, and too quiet, and alone and not, and the ruffle of pages, and the tapping of keys and every click and every creak. The gun was always there. It lived inside her now.”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“Reading about life was no preparation for living it.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Maidens

“I always think that when we’re quiet, we’re agreeing to be harmless to each other. That we’re just sharing the same space and letting each other exist exactly as we are, and neither of us would hurt or upset the other one.”
― Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly