Lucy Bird

“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I wasn't aware that words could hold so much. I didn't know a sentence could be so full.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Their tenderness was hesitant and temporary, like a butterfly pausing on a child’s hand.”
― Alice Winn, In Memoriam

“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell”
― Tara Westover, Educated