Yoli

“I asked myself, “Is there anything I want right now?” and then answered “fries.” I therefore decided to buy the fries instead of killing myself because that seemed logical. You shouldn't kill yourself when you still want to eat.”
― Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

“That my pathological fear of needing anyone for anything at all - of failing in any way, real or imagined - is linked to my insatiable desire to make myself indispensable, to find people I can get busy saving. That all of this stems from a belief that I can't trust anyone's affection if it isn't born of need.”
― Molly McCully Brown, Places I've Taken My Body: Essays

“In that moment, I made peace with my family—by which I mean that I realized I never wanted to see them again, and I was at peace with that.”
― Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

“It was sort of amazing seeing men who weren't particularly attractive but who believed, more or less correctly, that they could have and do whatever they wanted. I was always calculating with scientific precision the relative beauty of the people I wanted to be with, and would steer clear of the ones who exceeded me too greatly. But then you'd see guys like this one trundling around the world, reaching out, cheerily thoughtless, for whatever shiny thing passed. They didn't feel the need to strike an equitable bargain, they just advanced towards you, grinning a little sheepishly maybe, and their entitlement was so alien and enviable that it was something like charming.”
― Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation