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“Maybe people like us can’t be happy. Maybe we’re too damaged and the only thing we can do is to learn how to hate ourselves a little less.”
― Asper Blurry, Train to the Edge of the Moon

“The Women who have answered the call to the Mystery do not live within anyone's rules or projected ideas of how the Feminine should be. These Women have given up needing to be ' nice ' . They have given up saying Yes to each and every demand made upon them.
They have walked away from the prison of living to please others”
― Sophie Bashford

“Pretty was a strange thing to concern oneself over. Pretty was subjective and fallacious.”
― Rivers Solomon, An Unkindness of Ghosts

“We see the illusion of individual predilection being maintained, for example, in the array of different styles of iPhone cases available to us. We wonder which of the provided range of colourful or sophisticated sheaths best communicates to the world our unique character. Thus we lean towards the wood effect, or the Batman one (ironically sported, of course), or the vintage Union Jack. Meanwhile, it is much harder to honestly ask ourselves whether our lives would be improved were we not to be attached to our devices quite as umbilically, and how much misery they bring us alongside the various conveniences and amusements. Whether we might be more authentically ourselves if, with a pioneering and curious spirit, we occasionally left them at home. It”
― Derren Brown, Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine