Andrea

“At each moment the state of self is constructed, from the ground up,” writes Antonio Damasio. “It is an evanescent reference state, so continuously and consistently reconstructed that the owner never knows it is being remade unless something goes wrong with the remaking.”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It

“We often play small, so as not to threaten other people. We don’t want to intimidate them by our brightness, but the truth is, you do them and yourself a disservice by dimming what you’ve been given—your intelligence, your light. Those are your gifts.”
― RuPaul, GuRu

“It was a night in late August, a night that rekindled in rattling windows and tree branch palsy that lost recollection of autumn, misplaced for the succession of bright summer distractions, trapped heat in small rooms and sweaty underarms.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist

“rihanna is my president, walking out of global summits with wineglass in hand, our taxes returned in gold to dust our faces into coins”
― Danez Smith, Homie