Thoughts—even fears—were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice, and once given that weight, they could crush you.
“She taught me to leave a hair in every Uber I took at night, just in case something went wrong with the tracking.”
― The Real Deal
― The Real Deal
“The nice thing is,’ she says, ‘You don’t actually have to be anything. You can work in a bookshop and take your sister to dance class and fall in love and drink wine in the street and watch the same film three times in one week, and it doesn’t have to be depressing or boring or like you’re not going anywhere, because you don’t have to go somewhere, you know?’ ‘I want to go into my thirties having achieved something.’ ‘Stay happy,’ she says. ‘That’s an achievement.”
― The Real Deal
― The Real Deal
“Thoughts—even fears—were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice, and once given that weight, they could crush you.”
― Firefly Lane
― Firefly Lane
“We can only become true allies to each other when we are willing to acknowledge the privilege that we move through the world with and the potential that it holds to do harm to others or to allow harm to continue.”
― Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition – The Ground-Breaking Guide to Identity, Differences, and Community
― Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition – The Ground-Breaking Guide to Identity, Differences, and Community
“I sometimes feel I’m not built to be known intimately. I don’t think I would hold up upon close inspection. I want to know other people in great detail, to be able to predict every thought and choice and action. I don’t want them to know me at all.”
― The Real Deal
― The Real Deal
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