Abhay Verma

“Beauty isn't actually what you look like; beauty is the preferences that reproduce the existing social order.”
― Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

“But if I believe that I can become beautiful, I become an economic subject. My desire becomes a marker.”
― Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

“I hate small talk. It is small. Small is for teacups and occasionally for tiny houses. Too much small talk is how a country is given to sociopaths who thrive on shallow chatter to distract their emotional sleight of hand. Talk should be meaningful or kept to a minimum.”
― Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

“I could never step lightly enough or run fast enough to get away from the cracking, so I made everything around me so loud that it drowned out the sound.”
― Brené Brown, Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience