◦◅◂☽ snowdrops & jasmins ☾▸▻◦

“Beauty you're born with, but brains you earn.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“It all points to the fact that my identity isn’t binary.

It’s multifaceted.

And maybe I can let go of the sting and resentment of the path not taken, because the path not taken isn’t just the inverse of who I am. It’s an infinitely branching system that represents all the permutations of my life between the extremes of me[.]”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“At this point, I’m not even sure what to be afraid of—this reality that might actually be true, or the possibility that everything is going to pieces inside my head.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“Why do people marry versions of their controlling mothers? Or absent fathers? To have a shot at righting old wrongs. Fixing things as an adult that hurt you as a child. Maybe it doesn't make sense at a surface level, but the subconscious marches to its own beat.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter