Lizzy

“I'm homesick for myself
In place of home is a face I no longer recognise”
― A. Natasha Joukovsky, The Portrait of a Mirror

“her identity had been so wrapped up in being the precocious child that she’d turned into an inept adult.”
― A. Natasha Joukovsky, The Portrait of a Mirror

“Your potential, the absolute best you’re capable of—that’s the metric to measure yourself against. Your standards are. Winning is not enough. People can get lucky and win. People can be assholes and win. Anyone can win. But not everyone is the best possible version of themselves.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“From the outside, you seem mature with a philosopher's mind. But inside, you're just a child lost in a sweet delusion.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky