Flora P

“Why is it that with nobody to watch over them, men can’t stop themselves from falling into disrepair? And that disrepair is then looked upon kindly and excused by the world, seen not as a failure of personal responsibility but something poignant and tragic.”
― Asako Yuzuki, Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder

“What I will also say is that women are magicians. I don't mean magic like the kind you were warned to avoid, I mean magic as in spinning story as lifeline, as in turning a wound into a star, as in holding an apocalypse in your core and smiling believably.”
― Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!

“We didn't know then that the practice of burying emotions created adults who'd struggle to build meaningful relationships; some of us would eventually completely forget how to access true feelings”
― Toya Wolfe, Last Summer on State Street

“The antidote to loneliness isn’t just being around random people indiscriminately, the antidote to loneliness is emotional security.”
― Benedict Wells, Vom Ende der Einsamkeit