Futun

“It's not other people that hurt us, but what we feel about them”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“How am I feeling?" I'm sort of in the mood to feel righteously indignant but I don't have anything worth getting indignant about. I guess I'm mad that people aren't stupider when I need them to be.”
― Jenny Lawson

“emptying out of my mother's belly
was my first act of disappearance
learning to shrink for a family
who likes their daughters invisible
was the second
the art of being empty
is simple
believe them when they say
you are nothing
repeat it to yourself
like a wish
i am nothing
i am nothing
i am nothing
so often
the only reason you know
you're still alive is from the
heaving of your chest”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“And when our eyes locked, I felt that pain I got whenever she was around. That pain of knowing that sometimes the things I want aren’t the things I need, but not knowing, exactly, how to let those things go.”
― Carmen Rodrigues, 34 Pieces of You