Alessandra Crivelli

“No one needs to ask for a woman’s opinion. It’s expected that she gives it freely.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, The Last Namsara

“I've learnt that if you're careful, you can hold a butterfly in your hand. And that even if it's been trapped, frightened, in a jar, it still has a chance to survive. Because a butterfly with a broken wing can still fly.”
― Lisa Heathfield, Paper Butterflies

“Be you. It's all you can ever be anyway. But own being you. It's a fab thing to own.”
― Holly Bourne, How Hard Can Love Be?

“See, anxiety doesn’t just stop. You can have nice moments, minutes where it shrinks, but it doesn’t leave. It lurks in the background like a shadow, like that important assignment you have to do but keep putting off or the dull ache that follows a three-day migraine. The best you can hope for is to contain it, make it as small as possible so it stops being intrusive. Am I coping? Yes, but it’s taking a monumental amount of effort to keep the dynamite inside my stomach from exploding. The”
― Louise Gornall, Under Rose-Tainted Skies