Parmida

“Observe Everything. Always think for yourself. Never let other people make important decisions for you.”
― Edward St. Aubyn, Bad News

“I started out reading as an escape, then a chore, then a habit, then a luxury. Only now I've realised what a necessity it is.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge

“The heart is neither given nor stolen. The heart surrenders.”
― Steven Erikson, House of Chains

“Being proper and sweet and nice and pleasing is a fucking nightmare. It’s exhausting. As women, we get the message about how to be a good girl – how to be a good, pretty girl – from such an early age. Then, at the same time, we’re told that well-behaved girls won’t change the world or ever make a splash. So it’s sort of like, well, what the fuck am I supposed to be? I’m supposed to be a really polite revolutionary?” Phoebe Waller-Bridge spreads her arms and starts to laugh. “It’s impossible.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge