Lou

“I don’t want to be work. I don’t want you to feel that I’m work.”
“Somewhere along the way your wires got crossed. Your brain decided that you’re not worth people’s time and effort, and that if you ask for anything, they won’t just say no, they’ll also leave you. That’s not how love works, Elsie.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

“Above all else, overwork was a distraction that blotted out the dull, but ambient emotional discomfort that was always there, a feeling of unworthiness that I’ve been running from my entire life. Work made me feel like I was somebody other than the unlovable monster I was quite sure I was inside. It allowed me to feel that if I cosplayed long enough as a cool and confident professional, I could obliterate that monster for good.”
― Jennifer Romolini, Ambition Monster: A Memoir

“Violence, remember it's only the body that's fragile. You are unbreakable.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“How much do we need to endure early in order to justify feeling messed up later?”
― Jennifer Romolini, Ambition Monster: A Memoir