Markeisa

“This was not the real wedding,” Ilya assured Ruby as they both enjoyed some cake. “The real one was the one you did. This was just for show.” Ruby smiled at him”
― Rachel Reid, The Long Game

“I didn’t want to be so easily triggered anymore by someone else’s failure to change. I didn’t want to be so fixated on something I could never fix. I also could stand to even give him grace.”
― Michael Arceneaux, I Finally Bought Some Jordans: Essays

“I've purchased five online carts in the days since Korgy left. So many items of clothing that will inevitably wind up in a landfill somewhere, expanding my carbon footprint and contributing to global warming when in three months I'll decide I don't want them anymore, which seems like a thing I should've known to begin with, considering they were never really the thing I wanted in the first place. They were just smaller, more attainable things to want. Placeholders for the bigger, insatiable, incorrigible want underneath.”
― Jennette McCurdy, Half His Age

“I know my job. My role. To make him feel good. To be his escape. To take him out of the pressures of his life, which includes not putting any pressure on him to be a bigger part of mine.”
― Jennette McCurdy, Half His Age