Jackie Feldman

“find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am worthy of love and capable of loving. i am capable of loving and worthy of love.”
― Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

“That’s what marriage is, motherhood, except the man doesn’t do you the courtesy of growing up.”
― K-Ming Chang

“If we could communicate fully, there would be no need to communicate. If we could love perfectly, there would be no need to love. If we could finish grieving, there would be no need to live. If we could touch completely, there would be no need.”
― Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

“She was the sort of person who saw lonely, solitary sadness, when all around her there was love just pouring forth, just gushing forth from every direction. She was the sort of person who saw only one apple in a tree that was just littered with apples.”
― Sheila Heti, Alphabetical Diaries