Lindsey

“The real benefit of travel is that you encounter the comforting ordinariness of everyone else.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dream Count

“And it would be you who paid it, who would never stop paying it. Because you loved me, and in loving me, you would never be free.

Dizzily, sickly, in a long string of metaphors, I saw everything we could make of love: chains, debts, cages, circles.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

“The secret was that humanity is wretched in its essence, and we loathe to be reminded of our own rote repulsiveness. We hate to remember that we have bones that creak and grind at their points of juncture, blood that pulses wetly and turbidly through our veins, and muscles that distend and undulate when called upon to move. A man hates most of all his own heart, his own lungs, his own eyes and flesh and teeth, and he is grateful when he can displace this hatred onto another, when one is so openly, so garishly odious that it appears exceptional. The most blessed sights in the world are the most vulgar, and the most frightful are the most mundane.”
― Ava Reid, Innamorata

“Every page was once a blank page, just as every word that appears on it now was not always there, but instead reflects the final result of countless large and small deliberations. All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. And what grabs and keeps our interest has everything to do with those choices.”
― Francine Prose, Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them