Andrea Romo

“The present has become discontinuous. Each day, even each hour of each day, replaces and makes irrelevant the time before, and the events of our lives make sense only in relation to a perpetually updating timeline of news content.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“Listen, if there is a hell, we're in it. And if there's a heaven, we're already there. This is it.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

“Love, which is not pleasure but is also pleasure, happens in the body and through the body. Words cannot contain all that the gaze can hold, or the pressure of a particular touch, or the pain of knowing your child will grow old and die, and sometimes be young and die, and most times, be young and learn what it is to die. -Autumn Brown in 'The Work of Parenting”
― Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

“I felt now that all the uncomfortable suspicions I had about myself were coming true, and I couldn't hide the truth much longer. After nineteen years of running after good marks and prizes and grants of one sort and another, I was letting up, slowing down, dropping clean out of the race.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar