“I never used to be scared. But over the last few years, I’ve gradually got more and more nervous. I know it’s completely irrational.”
― Can You Keep a Secret?
― Can You Keep a Secret?
“By 2019, 85 percent of Instagram influencers were between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five, which means that what most twentysomethings see on their phones all day are other twentysomethings living their best lives—in bathing suits—with some making a lot of money along the way. Meanwhile, child celebrities and everyday kids spend their youth acting twenty, while mature adults and the Real Housewives dress, and are sculpted, to look twenty-nine. The young look older and the old look younger, collapsing the adult life span into one long twentysomething ride.”
― The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now
― The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now
“We create our own hell, it is the sum of all our decisions - we are not sentenced, we condemn ourselves.”
― Captive
― Captive
“Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“That was what true survival was, keeping the heart beating while continuing to feel everything.”
― I Thought You Said This Would Work
― I Thought You Said This Would Work
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