“If you’ve seen enough, you just look older, no matter what the rest of your face looks like.”
― The Butterfly Garden
― The Butterfly Garden
“Doing nothing can sometimes be the most effective form of action.”
― Crazy Rich Asians
― Crazy Rich Asians
“I'm tired and angry at me. For letting myself get smaller and smaller in the hopes that he would notice me more. But how can someone notice you if you keep getting smaller?”
― Girl in Pieces
― Girl in Pieces
“And we're such language-based creatures that to some extent we cannot know what we cannot name. And so we assume it isn't real. We refer to it with catch-all terms, like crazy or chronic pain, terms that both ostracise and minimise. The term chronic pain captures nothing of the grinding, constant, ceaseless, inescapable hurt. And the term crazy arrives at us with none of the terror and worry you live with.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“I believe in happiness. I'm just not sure love will actually get you there.”
― The Thousandth Floor
― The Thousandth Floor
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