♡ iana ♡

“Why do we romanticize the dead? Why can't we be honest about them? Especially moms. They're the most romanticized of anyone.

Moms are saints, angels by merely existing. NO ONE could possibly understand what it's like to be a mom. Men will never understand. Women with no children will never understand. No one buts moms know the hardship of motherhood, and we non-moms must heap nothing but praise upon moms because we lowly, pitiful non-moms are mere peasants compared to the goddesses we call mothers.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“For those who feel homesick for a place they’ve never been to. Those who seek even if they do not know what (or where) it is that they are seeking. Those who seek will find. Their doors have been waiting for them.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“I was born into the apocalypse.
It's probably unhelpful to throw around a word like "apocalypse," and to be honest I couldn't tell you whether it's even apt.
It looks like an apocalypse from here. Or from now. From a distance, it looks like the world ended. Maybe it did.
But—and I suspect that this isn't something people like to admit; I've seen a lot of people who lived through that time not admitting this—it didn't feel like an apocalypse.
It just felt like life.”
― Jeffrey Cranor, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

“English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular. And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel