Yoli

“I wear the mask of a well mannered distant relative. A young lady who crosses her legs at the ankles and laughs at banal jokes. That is a new character for me however. I have not mastered her yet. I have grasped the characters; enigmatic temporary love interest, reliable employee, my mother's aidful daughter, unobjectionable patron at a store or restaurant. In the past I learned to play shy teenage girl, tidy roommate, and diligent student through some trial and error, but those roles are behind me now, thank god.”
― Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

“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

“I am thinking about how everyone's behavior is motivated by many secret things. I know there are reasons why people do things that I am not in on. I know I am not the center of the universe. The sun does not revolve around me. There are lots of questions I will never know the answers to. ... Maybe everything I think is wrong.”
― Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

“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