Kelsey

“I remember a friend of mine once telling me that we hate what we fear in ourselves,”
― John Boyne, The Heart's Invisible Furies

“I know there may be universes out there where I made different choices and they led me somewhere else, led me to someone else. And my heart breaks for every single version of me that didn't end up with you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life

“If people in white collar professional jobs, who are among our society's most well educated, driven, and high achieving citizens are becoming addicts, what does that say about us as a society?

I ask myself, what is the point of being here at all, of striving to achieve success, and careers, and personal lives, if so many want to escape once they get there?”
― Eilene B. Zimmerman, Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy

“Ruth had learned only one thing from the current reality, and it was that everything held together by tacit agreement that it would. All it took to unravel something was one party deciding to do just that. There was no real structure to prevent chaos. There was only a collective faith in order.”
― Rumaan Alam, Leave the World Behind