Michaela

“Being clever was, after all, my primary source of self-esteem. I’m a very sad person, in all senses of the word, but at least I was going to get into university.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“not one girl I think
who looks on the light of the sun
will ever
have wisdom
like this”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“In the end, people are unable to discard things either because they are attached to the past or afraid of the future.”
― Marie Kondō, The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up

“Paint ghosts over everything, the sadness of everything. We made ourselves cold. We made ourselves snow. We smuggled ourselves into ourselves. Haunted by each other’s knowledge. To hide somewhere is not surrender, it is trickery. All day the snow falls down, all night the snow. I try to guess your trajectory and end up telling my own story. We left footprints in the slush of ourselves, getting out of there.”
― Richard Siken, War of the Foxes