Amelia V.

“True parenting involves gradually transferring the responsibility for life to the shoulders of the child.”
― John Lewis Lund, How to Hug a Porcupine: Dealing With Toxic & Difficult to Love Personalities

“Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realises himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism

“Give your daughters difficult names. Names that command the full use of the tongue. My name makes you want to tell me the truth. My name doesn’t allow me to trust anyone who cannot pronounce it right. —Warsan Shire”
― Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez, For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color

“There is a difference between appropriate and inappropriate selfishness. Seeking to become your healthiest and best self is an appropriate selfishness. Wanton disregard for others becoming their best selves and exploiting them for selfish purposes is by definition an inappropriate selfishness.”
― John Lewis Lund, How to Hug a Porcupine: Dealing With Toxic & Difficult to Love Personalities