“What are you doing?” “Watching Briana. I sent her flowers. I’m waiting for them to get here.” “What’d you send her flowers for?” I smiled. “She’s mad at me.” “For what?” “She asked if I’d eat her if she were a gummy bear. I said yes.” He
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“Maybe it’s possible to have more than one home. Maybe it’s possible to belong in a hundred different ways to a hundred different people and places.”
― Book Lovers
― Book Lovers
“Let it all out. You’re safe. I’m here.”
― Icebreaker
― Icebreaker
“There will never be a moment when you say, “Okay, fine, that was good. I’m finished. All healed.” No, tomorrow you might need to talk about it again, to heal a little more. Be okay with the time it takes. There’s no need to rush it. What’s for you is for you.”
― Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice
― Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice
“I had expectations of what my adult life might look like. It was going to be sophisticated and full of adventure. I'd meet interesting people and do interesting things, and I'd be hot and happy. It certainly did not involve me lying on my living room floor on a Tuesday evening with a slightly stale bag of chips and a pile of tissues because listening to "Marjorie" makes me miss my Nana and I can't stop crying. But I also can't stop listening to it.”
― Daydream
― Daydream
“Like a man with diarrhea in a sandpaper factory, sometimes all available options are less than ideal.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
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