Katherine

“faith and trust in the kindness of others is a hard-won oblivion, is a very strong armor. It may hurt, in the short run, to have an open, trusting heart. It may mean, in the short run, that you are weak. But in the long run it can mean survival. It takes a kind of courage to be kind.”
― Kaitlyn Greenidge, We Love You, Charlie Freeman

“there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this
and most often when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than too late”
― Charles Bukowski

“The desire to come apart irrevocably will always be as strong as, if not stronger than, the drive to establish oneself.”
― Claire-Louise Bennett

“it was only through their loud rudeness that they might feel any sense of security and power.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me