Ayla Stierwalt

“I once read that was the easiest way to spot a liar. A person telling the truth tended to glaze over most details or skip them entirely, thinking it wasn’t relevant. But a liar… they wanted their story to seem as genuine as possible, so they’d overcompensate and invent all sorts of random detail, thinking it would add more realism.”
― Stella Hart, Vicious King

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin