Kamille

“You think there’s some nobility in being above anger?”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“why do we assume that it is the easiest thing in the world to know and judge another? Why, when we are reluctant even to describe a wedge of cheese we are seeing for the first time, do we draw our final conclusions from our first encounters with people, and happily dismiss them?”
― Sabahattin Ali, Madonna in a Fur Coat

“the election appears to have unleashed previously concealed forms of self-interest, bullying, greed, and downright cruelty.”
― Joyce Maynard, How the Light Gets In

“Just give him a second,” Jordi said. “The initial reaction isn’t the eternal reaction.” This was a thing from a Jungian self-help book that we often told each other when our partners fucking hated us.”
― Miranda July, All Fours