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

“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

“You’re better off being you. Half the people you know’ll applaud you for it and the other half’ll be pissed off. If the people applauding you are the people you like and respect, then you’ll know you got it right.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Michael Without Apology