Lauren

“We still believe after all this time that if we hate ourselves enough we’ll end up loving ourselves.”
― Megan Jayne Crabbe, Body Positive Power: Because Life Is Already Happening and You Don't Need Flat Abs to Live It

“Not just wicked, no, I never even managed to become anything: neither wicked nor good, neither a scoundrel nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and utterly futile consolation that it is even impossible for an intelligent man seriously to become anything, and only fools become something. Yes, sir, an intelligent man of the nineteenth century must be and is morally obliged to be primarily a characterless being; and a man of character, an active figure – primarily a limited being. This is my forty-year-old conviction. I am now”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

“People with schizophrenia in the United States were better off in the 1970s than they are now.”
― Susannah Cahalan, The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness

“What is love, Poori?” Savitha said. “What is love if not a hunger?”
― Shobha Rao, Girls Burn Brighter