Sachiko

“Such was puberty, one big masochistic joke set in the halfway house of middle school, where kids endure the three most confusing and sensitive years of their lives...A time when anything that is unique about ourselves, anything that makes us depart ever so slightly from the collective, prototypical vision of popular beauty becomes an agonizing pockmark and self-denial the only remedy at hand.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“But everything is still so new, and so different, for all of us. Most of the time we are lost, drifting along on our own planets.
But we are together in the same universe, at least.”
― Cece Bell, El Deafo

“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“To be good is to be in harmony with one's self
Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray