Zachary Murphy

“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

“This whole time I thought changing the world was something you did, an act you perform, something you fought for. I don't know if that's true anymore.

What if changing the world was just about being here, by showing up, no matter how many times we get told we don't belong, by staying true even when we're shamed into being false.

By believing in ourselves even when we're told we're too different, and if we all held onto that, if we refuse to budge and fall in line, if we stood our ground for long enough, just maybe, the world can't help but change around us.

-Mr Robot Season 4, episode 13”
― Sam Esmail

“After I’d brushed my teeth and washed my face and was almost ready for bed,”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History