April

“When you endure horror day after day, month after month, it becomes normalized. I built high stone walls around my heart—walls that no one could break through or climb over for more than twenty years. My MO was to not think about it, not talk about it. Don’t feed the beast. Don’t give it any oxygen. It’ll go away. For a long time, I made that work, but every now and then, some random thing would trigger a flood of memory and anxiety and crush my soul all over again.”
― Paris Hilton, Paris: A Memoir for Young Women in the Age of Influencers

“It's humbling to be reminded that no matter how big your life is, you are still a speck of dust that can be swept off this earth in half a second.”
― Paris Hilton, Paris: A Memoir for Young Women in the Age of Influencers

“There are so many young women who need to hear this story. I don't want them to learn from my mistakes; I want them to stop hating themselves for mistakes of their own. I want them to laugh and see that they do have a voice and their own brand of intelligence and, girl, fuck fitting in.”
― Paris Hilton, Paris: A Memoir for Young Women in the Age of Influencers

“You can't force a person to show up, but you can learn a lesson when they don't”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story