Louise

“She has a pretty face, which is the same thing as ugly when a woman is fat. In the complex calculus between men and women, Milly, understands that fat is always ugly and that ugly and skinny makes a woman eminently more desirable than fat and any combination such as beautiful, charming, intelligent, or kind. Milly is ally those things.”
― Roxane Gay

“Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child—What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin