Aly

“Fear of rejection isn’t a sophisticated feeling. You know it thwacks you in the gut. But no matter how hard you try to look for it, you will probably never see it coming.”
― Ayisha Malik, Sofia Khan is Not Obliged

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Oh, his words! Sometimes they’re like tiny splinters, catching at the fabric of my focus.”
― Ayisha Malik, Sofia Khan is Not Obliged

“I was afraid of all the lost choices I would never be able to make, and that for the rest of my life someone would always be telling me what to do or say or think, even when I had better ideas of my own. I was afraid of never being anything but what suited others and being pushed and prodded until I fit the mold they shoved me into and I forgot who I was and what I wanted.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Beauty of Darkness