Barbara

“I think of my mom and Nina... how their dream was acting and it never came true. I wonder what one day my failed dream might be. I wonder what it's like being in a talent show, your mom in the audience clapping for you.”
― Holly Wilson

“just being perceived, all the time being perceived, was itself exhausting.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“My current life, I realized, was constructed around an absence; for all its richness I still felt as if the floors might give way, as if its core were only a covering of leaves, and I would slip through, falling endlessly, never to get my footing.”
― Esi Edugyan, Washington Black

“She’d hated this email because it hadn’t answered her question, because the rep had mixed metaphors, because the punctuation was chaotic, and because workhorse was one word.”
― Laura Blackett, The Very Nice Box