Danielle

“Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.”
― John Berger

“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
― Mark Twain

“It’s a secondhand world we’re born into. What is novel to us is only so because we’re newborn, and what we cannot see, that has come before- what our parents have seen and been and done- are the hand-me-downs we begin to wear as swaddling clothes, even as we ourselves are naked. The flaw runs through us, implicating us in its imperfection even as it separates us, delivers us onto opposite sides of a chasm. It is both terribly beautiful and terribly sad, but it is, finally, the fault in the universe that gives birth to us all.”
― Katherine Min, Secondhand World

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
― Maya Angelou