Cherith

“Decades before I valued myself enough to be careful for myself, I was careful so that my mother would not worry.”
― Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

“Stupid people are dangerous.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Smart is only a construct of correspondence, between one’s abilities, one’s environment, and one’s moment in history.”
― Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

“I am thinking of beauty again, how some things are hunted because we have deemed them beautiful. If, relative to the history of our planet, an individual life is so short, a blink, as they say, then to be gorgeous, even from the day you're born to the day you die, is to be gorgeous only briefly.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous