Emma

“Just because you survive something does not mean you are strong.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

“You can never escape who you are, never truly anonymise yourself. Even if you never speak to anyone, people see you, and they get to know you for themselves.”
― Greg Baxter, The Apartment

“So now I just assume that it won't work, and that if it does work, I'll lose it anyway. This is meant to protect me, although it doesn't, because somehow the hope sneakily finds its way in. I'm never aware of the hope until it's gone, whooshed away like a rug pulled from under my feet, each time I hear another "I'm sorry.”
― Liane Moriarty, What Alice Forgot

“A woman filled with light makes everything she touches brighter.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost