Aubrey

“Maybe I write because I’ve learned to show certain parts of my heart on the page that I still struggle to capture in speech.”
― common, One Day It'll All Make Sense

“This is what most girls are taught—that we should be slender and small. We should not take up space. We should be seen and not heard, and if we are seen, we should be pleasing to men, acceptable to society. And most women know this, that we are supposed to disappear, but it’s something that needs to be said, loudly, over and over again, so that we can resist surrendering to what is expected of us.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love.”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions