Sydney Scarbrough

“Nonetheless, it is better to feel hopeful and optimistic about one’s life on earth while engaged in the never-ending struggle to pay rent, than to feel despondent and depressed while engaged in the same non-optional struggle anyway.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“Take away the husband, the career, the kids. Those are the things society says we women should be happiest about. Like we should be grateful for stiff dicks when we’re not in the mood, and getting smacked in the face at two in the morning when your kid pees in the bed for the third night in a row, and your job keeps you an extra two, three hours a couple times a week to do extra work you’re not getting paid for because you’re on salary and a team player. Whew—happy happy joy joy, right? But strip that down. What really makes you happy?”
― Denene Millner, One Blood

“Freedom is not a blank slate, she wants to tell them. Freedom is teeming, and complicated, and yes — risky. And it can only be written in the company of others.”
― Laila Lalami, The Dream Hotel

“Under the right circumstances, anything can be made into something sinister.”
― Laila Lalami, The Dream Hotel