♡ Lindsey ♡

“This is what most girls are taught—that we should be slender and small. We should not take up space. We should be seen and not heard, and if we are seen, we should be pleasing to men, acceptable to society. And most women know this, that we are supposed to disappear, but it’s something that needs to be said, loudly, over and over again, so that we can resist surrendering to what is expected of us.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“The brain is such a complex thing. It has the ability to store so much, and also to tuck away certain things that don’t need repeated examination.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“maybe i was never trying to kill myself.  maybe i was trying to kill the pieces of you, the pieces that rot and decay and demolish.  the memories of your words, your actions, inactions.”
― Winnie Kendrick, there has always been magic within me

“I am determined to be more than my body—what my body has endured, what my body has become. Determination, though, has not gotten me very far.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body