Kel

“Bird misses everything at once. One thing makes her want all the others— lived or not, still she misses them. She misses lives she has never lived— days issued out of the future , hours that will never be.”
― Noy Holland, Bird

“I waited to be told what was good about me. [...] All that time I had spent readying myself, the articles that taught me life was really just a waiting room until someone noticed you- the boys had spent that time becoming themselves.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“He must have a lover of his own, some man or woman or animal whose absence hurt like a presence, some person that he poured himself into like a mold to remind himself of what he was.”
― Alexandra Kleeman, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine