Taylor

“The greatest freedom I have now is that I no longer believe that anyone else can save my life.

--Erica Jong, quoted by bell hooks in Communion The Female Search for Love”
― Erica Jong

“Being bipolar is like having an ax to grind with an ax you need to split the wood to keep you warm in a cold dark forest you only might eventually realized you'll never make you way out of.”
― Tommy Orange, There There

“Without knowing one another, we can never experience intimacy.”
― bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love

“I think it is easy to imagine there are easier paths,’ she said, realising something for the first time. ‘But maybe there are no easy paths. There are just paths. In one life, I might be married. In another, I might be working in a shop. I might have said yes to this cute guy who asked me out for a coffee. In another I might be researching glaciers in the Arctic Circle. In another, I might be an Olympic swimming champion. Who knows? Every second of every day we are entering a new universe. And we spend so much time wishing our lives were different, comparing ourselves to other people and to other versions of ourselves, when really most lives contain degrees of good and degrees of bad.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library