Sydney

“I will not stay, not ever again - in a room or conversation or relationship or institution that requires me to abandon myself.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“If there had not been so much anger, there would have been desperate awkwardness; but their straightforward emotions left no room for the little zigzags of embarrassment.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“When a woman finally learns that pleasing the world is impossible, she becomes free to learn how to please herself.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“Successive layers overlap; the resulting gloom deters less shade-tolerant species from growing and makes beech forests, which lack shrubs close to the group, strangely quiet.”
― Jonathan Drori, Around the World in 80 Trees