This is the burden of a mother’s love, how it must hover without landing.
“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell”
― Educated
― Educated
“we are thirty in our hearts, before all the disappointment, all the ways it turned out to be so much more painful than we thought it would be, but then again, it has also been magic.”
― The Correspondent
― The Correspondent
“She knew since she was little, the world would not sing her triumphs, but she took all of the stereotypes and put them in a chokehold until they breathed out the truth.”
― The Poet X
― The Poet X
“We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. We shall all, in the end, find our way home.”
― The Beatryce Prophecy
― The Beatryce Prophecy
“Why were the things that were closest so often the hardest to see?”
― Small Things Like These
― Small Things Like These
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