Akshara Mishra

“Vulnerability is allowing people to see you exactly as you are, which is really hard, because when you’re vulnerable you can get hurt. Most people armor up with bravado or something, but those people are missing out, because without allowing yourself to be vulnerable, it’s tough to have, like, any emotional experience at all. Letting people in is really vulnerable, and most people—especially introverts—have trouble.”
― Bill Konigsberg, Honestly Ben

“Instead of a stable truth, I choose unstable possibilities.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“I mean, if you accept something, you take it for what it is. Tolerance is different. Less.”
― Bill Konigsberg, Openly Straight

“The idea that because things are worse somewhere else, you’re not allowed to have issues in your life. That’s what people who are trying to avoid having normal feelings say.”
― Bill Konigsberg, Honestly Ben