Sarah

“I wished I had always lived in this body, and you could have lived here with me, and I could have told you it’s all right, it’s going to be all right.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“There were times when the pressure to achieve happiness felt almost oppressive, as if happiness were something that everyone should and could attain, and that any sort of compromise in its pursuit was somehow your fault.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Practicing loving-kindness toward ourselves seems as good a way as any to start illuminating the darkness of difficult times.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

“Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore