Yoli

“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

“Everything matters so much and so little; it is disgusting.”
― Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

“I felt there was no point in telling anyone anything that was happening inside of me.”
― Christa Wolf

“I realized that "demon" is a subjective term, and the splitting of my identity between devil and God, between impure and pure, was something that my mum did to me, rather than the reality of my existence.”
― Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating