Noémie

“My ego had always been an issue. I knew that intellectual attainment was morally neutral at best, but when bad things happened to me I made myself feel better by thinking about how smart I was.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“Because even if I sometimes use the word abuse to describe certain things that were done to me, in someone else’s mouth the word turns ugly and absolute. It swallows up everything that happened.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“I would say I'm less afraid of dying than I am of life.”
― Melissa Broder, The Pisces

“Those cuts on my ribs are because I am trying to open gills before the flood comes.”
― Samantha Hunt, The Seas