Aimee

“Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn't know if she would ever find out where it was or become part of it.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Question: if a girl kisses another girl with
no witness, does that revelation make a sound?”
― Natalie Wee, Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines

“There are parts of yourself that you hate; parts that you know other people wouldn't understand.”
― Mindy McGinnis, The Female of the Species

“Sometimes I forget for one second and it hurts.
It’s a different kind of pain than the constant, the weight that hangs from my heart. It swings from twine embedded so deeply that my aorta has grown around it. Blood pulses past rope in the chambers of my heart, dragging away tiny fibers until my whole body is suffused and pain is all I am and ever can be.”
― Mindy McGinnis, The Female of the Species