From childhood on, not wanting children was as unapologetic a fact about me as my ethnicity, and I was just as unapologetic about it as an adult, which put me on the receiving end of such mystifying reactions as “You don’t really know what
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“The truest, most beautiful life never promises to be an easy one. We need to let go of the lie that it’s supposed”
― Untamed
― Untamed
“Rebellion is as much of a cage as obedience is. They both mean living in reaction to someone else’s way instead of forging your own. Freedom is not being for or against an ideal, but creating your own existence from scratch.”
― Untamed
― Untamed
“You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
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