aletris

“Deep down, I’ve always suspected Athena likes my company precisely because I can’t rival her. I understand her world, but I’m not a threat, and her achievements are so far out of my reach that she doesn’t feel bad squealing to my face about her wins. Don’t we all want a friend who won’t ever challenge our superiority, because they already know it’s a lost cause? Don’t we all need someone we can treat as a punching bag?”

Yellowface
R. F. Kuang”
― R. F. Kuang

“Sonunda ninem "Sevgili yavrucuğum," dedi. "Ömrünün sonuna kadar fare kalacağına üzülmüyor musun?"
"Hiç üzülmüyorum," diye yanıtladım. "Kim olduğun ya da neye benzediğin hiç önemli değil, yeter ki seni seven biri olsun.”
― Roald Dahl;, The Witches

“People always describe jealousy as this sharp, green, venomous thing.” (...) “Jealousy is constantly comparing myself to her and coming up short; is panicking that I’m not writing well enough or fast enough, that I am not, and never will be, enough.”

Sympathy is a knife^3^

Yellowface
R. F. Kuang”
― R. F. Kuang

“My therapist taught me once that the best way to deal with panic-inducing flashbacks is to think of them as scenes from a horror movie. Jump scares are terrifying the first time you see them because they catch you off guard, and because you don’t know what to expect. But once you watch them again and again, once you know exactly when the demon-possessed nun jumps out from behind the corner, they lose their power over you.”

Yellowface
R. F. Kuang”
― R. F. Kuang