I never get why white men are grumpy. Like, we’re living in a patriarchy. You’re the most privileged class on the face of the earth. You’re not walking to your car with your keys through your fingers like wolverine and you’ve got bodily
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“They’re tiny parts of the whole, and maybe if he gives me enough of them, it won’t hurt as bad when I have to leave.”
― Reminders of Him
― Reminders of Him
“You’re the one who has to live your life. Don’t apologize to other people for the decisions you make for yourself.”
― Things We Never Got Over
― Things We Never Got Over
“It is what it is. A fucked-up situation, with no evil people to blame. We’re all just a bunch of sad people doing what we have to do to make it until tomorrow.”
― Reminders of Him
― Reminders of Him
“It’s art. And it makes people happy. And that’s a very good thing. We have this problem in our culture. We take art that appeals to women—film, books, music—and we undervalue it. We assume it can’t be high art. Especially if it’s not dark and tortured and wailing. And it follows that much of that art is created by other women, and so we undervalue them as well. We wrap it up in a pretty pink package and resist calling it art.”
― The Idea of You
― The Idea of You
“We’re all a little broken, Briana. We are a mosaic. We’re made up of all those we’ve met and all the things we’ve been through. There are parts of us that are colorful and dark and jagged and beautiful. And I love every piece of you. Even the ones you wish didn’t exist.”
― Yours Truly
― Yours Truly
Allyson’s 2025 Year in Books
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