LAIBA

“Oh to be standing next to a stranger, staring at the same painting in an art museum, an unspoken romance between us.”
― tearinthestars

“What I couldn't handle wasn't the dropping of me as a friend - although that stung like an African Killer Bee - but the selling out of who-you-are and what's-important-to-you just because a boy likes it. To me that made you a traitor against girl kind...against yourself.”
― Holly Bourne, Am I Normal Yet?

“Look: this is January the worst onslaught
is ahead of us Don't be lured
by these soft grey afternoons these sunsets cut
from pink and violet tissue-paper by the thought
the days are lengthening
Don't let the solstice fool you:
our lives will always be
a stew of contradictions
the worst moment of winter can come in April
when the peepers are stubbornly still
and our bodies
plod on without conviction
and our thoughts cramp down before the sheer
arsenal of everything that tries us:
this battering, blunt-edged life”
― Adrienne Rich, Your Native Land, Your Life

“Because there’s nothing more comforting than someone who actually gets it. Really gets it. Because they’ve been to the same hell as you have and can verify you’ve not made it up.”
― Holly Bourne, Am I Normal Yet?