“If you manage to make it to some semblance of adulthood, just showing up turns out to be one of the kindest, most selfless things you can do for someone.”
― We Learn Nothing
― We Learn Nothing
“You can’t feel crazily grateful to be alive your whole life any more than you can stay passionately in love forever—or grieve forever, for that matter. Time makes us all betray ourselves and get back to the busywork of living.”
― We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons
― We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons
“I want to be inside your darkest everything”
― The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
― The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
“This is one of the things we rely on our friends for: to think better of us than we think of ourselves. It makes us feel better, but it also makes us be better; we try to be the person they believe we are.”
― We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons
― We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons
Alyssa’s 2025 Year in Books
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