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“I act and react, and suddenly I wonder, ‘Where is the girl that I was last year? Two years ago? What would she think of me now?”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I thought about the Apache women. Like the sandstone altar on which they had died, the shape of their lives had been determined years before—before the horses began their gallop, their sorrel bodies arching for that final collision. Long before the warriors’ leap it was decided how the women would live and how they would die. By the warriors, by the women themselves. Decided. Choices, numberless as grains of sand, had layered and compressed, coalescing into sediment, then into rock, until all was set in stone. —”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“As one person put it: “Almost everyone looks the exact same to me in terms of attractiveness, except Matt Bomer. He’s pretty.”
― Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex