mad mags

“Mijo, if the Bible tells me I shouldn’t love my kids, then the Bible is wrong.”
― Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

“It’s exhausting always having to be aware of whether you’re being too much yourself for other people’s comfort.”
― Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

“Do you ever think that maybe you have your shit together, it's just that your shit doesn't look like everyone else's?”
― Catherine Ryan Howard, 56 Days

“Sometimes my anxiety gets hard in ways that you might not expect. If you struggle with anxiety, you probably know this feeling, the paralysis. I get stuck and suddenly it’s been days since I replied to people on the internet and the pressure gets worse and I panic that people I haven’t responded to are mad at me, so I ignore their emails and I don’t look at my DMs or my texts and I don’t answer my phone or listen to voicemails, because if I just wait until my mind gets better, maybe I can deal with this then, but I don’t, because it doesn’t. And instead, I look at those unopened emails from my friends and family and colleagues until I have memorized the subject lines by heart and I think about how strange it is that they probably think I’m ignoring them when, in fact, I am utterly haunted by them.”
― Jenny Lawson, Broken