Maxwell

“what is bad for the heart is good for art. The terrible irony of our lives as artists.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people,” I say. “Maybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time.” Hauling them in as we make choices, good and bad, as we screw up, step up, lose our minds, find our minds, fall apart, fall in love, as we grieve, grow, retreat from the world, dive into the world, as we make things, as we break things.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“It's a horrible thing to fall out of sight.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“Can I hit them?

Oh, my daughter,
at times you have to fight,
but preferably
not with your fists”
― Thanhha Lai