J.M.

“You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow, isn’t he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.”
― Warsan Shire

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse”
― Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

“I have my mother’s mouth and my father’s eyes; on my face they are
still together.”
― Warsan Shire