nayadri

“I'm not especially easy to fool, but I am a romantic, which I suppose means at the right hour, I'm everybody's fool.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

“Those of us who are locked into ineffective expressions of
anger suffer as deeply as those of us who dare not get angry at all.”
― Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships

“Man is the creature who does not know what to desire, and he turns to others in order to make up his mind. We desire what others desire because we imitate their desires.”
― René Girard

“Your father doesn't want to go into his past because the past reminds him that he could have become a different person, and didn't.”
― Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père