Mikayla Nicholson

“The family is like the forest: if you are outside it is dense; if you are inside you see that each tree has its own position.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

“The people who lived in the portal were often compared to those legendary experiment rats who kept hitting a button over and over to get a pellet. But at least the rats were getting a pellet, or the hope of a pellet, or the memory of a pellet. When we hit the button, all we were getting was to be more of a rat.”
― Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

“I look for something else I could do for work but feel unqualified for everything interesting and repulsed by everything else.”
― Halle Butler, The New Me

“The best way was to make something, silently, secretly, and then have it appear in the world in all of its magnificent and surprising glory. Like birth, she thought. To push a thing from the most private part of yourself. To have it scream upon its arrival. To have it be perfect and glorious, to not have to say a word about it, to simply hold it in your arms, to extend it to the world with just one word of imploration: look.”
― Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch