Sonya

“You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them,” she says now. “You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“There is an assumption, put forth by everyone from greeting card companies to Bruce Springsteen, that nobody likes to be alone, least of all women. But many women, long valued in context to their relations to other people, find solitude- both the act of being alone and the attitude of being independent- a surprisingly sweet relief.”
― Rebecca Traister

“There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.”
― Joy Harjo

“To be surrounded by books, by thoughts, by places and people and things that she had not yet met—it was a haven unlike any other.”
― Lydia Kang, Opium and Absinthe