“I pick it up and turn to a random page and read a sentence — 'Nothing fixes a thing so firmly in the memory as the wish to forget it'.”
― How to Stop Time
― How to Stop Time
“It wasn’t just the loss of people I had known but also the loss of myself. The loss of who I had been when I had been with them.”
― How to Stop Time
― How to Stop Time
“Leading people on is a hate crime. Especially when you could just say what you want and let them decide whether or not they want to give it to you without getting their romantic feelings involved.”
― Wow, No Thank You.
― Wow, No Thank You.
“A handy trick is to think long and hard about what the person who hates you would realistically add to your life if they were to actually be a part of it. Most people really do have absolutely nothing to offer you.”
― Wow, No Thank You.
― Wow, No Thank You.
“For so long, we woman have turned our anger inwards, redirecting it towards ourselves and allowing it to manifest as shame. We have told ourselves, instead, that we are sad or hormonal or stressed, but these have been placeholder emotions. And for so long we have been encouraged to do this by a misogynistic culture that realises female anger is dangerous not because it is the product of mental imbalance but because it is fuel. Female anger is power.”
― How to Fail
― How to Fail
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