Khadlyn

“The thing about people telling you you're beautiful your whole life is that the more you hear it, the more meaningless it becomes. What does "beautiful" even mean anyway? That your features are arranged in a shape someone, somewhere, arbitrarily decided is pleasing? "Beautiful" never quite matches up to the other things you could be: smart, interesting, brave.”
― Chanel Cleeton, When We Left Cuba

“Change always comes with a closing cost. But it's still worth trying. Not because the odds are particularly good, mind you, but considering the alternative. There's value in the struggle. Value in touching the raw and bloody parts of our souls, opening them up to the sunlight, and hoping they heal.”
― Rosie Danan, The Roommate

“When you stay too long in a place, you forget just how big and expanse the world is. You get no sense of the length of those longitudes and latitudes”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Sometimes you're too quick to judge people. There are all kinds of reasons why they might not look like the kind of person you'd want to sit next to on a bus, but you can't sum someone up in a ten-second glance. That's stimply not enough time”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine