Kelly

“I can tell something is going wrong for me when I withdraw—I stop caring as much about the things I usually care about, be it keeping up the house or maintaining social connections or even watching the shows I like. But the more insidious thing that happens is that I lose track of my story. I lose track of where I’m going. I stop wanting to go anywhere. I stop thinking about getting to my desired ending, because everything feels like an ending already.”
― R. Eric Thomas, Congratulations, The Best Is Over!: Essays

“Sometimes I want to take on the whole world and then there are other times … when all I want is for the world to take care of me.”
― Ronan Hession, Panenka

“I'm not especially easy to fool, but I am a romantic, which I suppose means at the right hour, I'm everybody's fool.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

“Lord, I confess I want the clarity of
catastrophe but not the catastrophe.
Like everyone else, I want a storm I can
dance in.
I want an excuse to change my life.”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On