Cshoudis

“success is a lottery—just as survival today can look like a lottery, too. If you’re super lucky,”
― Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror

“To use Amazon—which I did regularly for years with full knowledge of its labor practices—is to accept and embrace a world in which everything is worth as little as possible; even, and maybe particularly, people.”
― Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

“In the introduction to The Second Sex (1949), de Beauvoir writes that the “drama of woman” lies in the conflict between the individual experience of the self and the collective experience of womanhood.”
― Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror

“All this time I told myself we were born from war—but I was wrong, Ma. We were born from beauty.
Let no one mistake us for the fruit of violence—but that violence, having passed through the fruit, failed to spoil it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous