Lori

“I always feel sad for the girl that i was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comfort me.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“There's no upside to bitterness, so why be bitter?”
― Phil Klay

“I carried the books to my room and read through the night. I loved the fiery pages of Mary Wollstonecraft, but there was a single line written by John Stuart Mill that, when I read it, moved the world: “It is a subject on which nothing final can be known.” The subject Mill had in mind was the nature of women. Mill claimed that women have been coaxed, cajoled, shoved and squashed into a series of feminine contortions for so many centuries, that it is now quite impossible to define their natural abilities or aspirations.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“Nietzsche, who famously said in Twilight of the Idols, "What does not kill me makes me stronger," suffered a mental breakdown at age forty-four.”
― Doughty Caitlin