Ashley Burton

“one of my problems has always been that I can never identify and avoid, in the moment, behavior that will come across as dickish and insufferable. I can, however, thanks to my self-critical nature (a volatile witch’s brew of blessing and curse), almost always identify my mistakes in retrospect, sometimes just moments too late, and so I live with the constant feeling that I have been tied to a post on the beach and left to face an endlessly incoming tide of shame”
― Maggie Shipstead, You Have a Friend in 10A: Stories