Taj El-Sayed

“This sounds like exactly what she wants, what she has secretly always wanted. To read books when she wanted to read books. To be sad when she was sad. To be scared when she was scared. To be angry when she was angry. To be boring when she felt boring.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“do not look for healing
at the feet of those
who broke you”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“when you are broken
and he has left you
do not question
whether you were
enough
the problem was
you were so enough
he was not able to carry it”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“But that is how it happens, she realizes. One moment of pretending to be great leads to the next moment of pretending to be great and ten years later, she realizes she's spent her entire life just pretending to be great.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People